Contents

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Preface vii
3. Contents xi
4. Acknowledgements xiii
5. On the syntax of comparative clauses in Vedic Sanskrit … like someone eating the foam off the water 1
6. Some questions about yád in Vedic 23
7. A statistical model of syntactic and nonsyntactic factors affecting relative clause placement in Hindi 43
8. Optionality and variation in agreement in some participles in Hindi-Urdu 77
9. A cross-linguistic approach to sentential subjects in Kannada 119
10. Relation between animacy and case marking in Eastern Indo-Aryan languages 173
11. Participles with a semantic void in Koints 191
12. Competition between vectored verbs and factored verbs in Hindi-Urdu, Marathi and Gujarati 207
13. How similarly do Hindi rakhnā and Japanese oku PUT behave as a V2? A corpus-based comparative analysis 243
14. The use of vector verbs in early modern Tamil 261
15. Reflexive and reciprocal marking in Mising 291
16. Reciprocals in Kokborok — A Case of Syntactic Convergence 311
17. A cognitive semantic analysis of locative and spatial constructions in Bangla 339
18. Revisiting Pāṇini’s generative power 361
19. Hindi root allomorphy: Insights from phonological and morphosyntactic theory 381
20. Lexeme and speech syllables in English and Hindi. A case for syllable structure 415
21. List of contributors 463
22. List of contributors 469
23. Index of languages 477
24. Index of subjects 479