Argument structure in Kashmiri

Argument structure of Kashmiri is a study of the grammatical patterns one finds in the Indo-Aryan language Kashmiri. Kashmiri shows several unique linguistic features which sets it aside from more well-known Indo-Aryan languages. The book focuses on the grammatical relations and their coding in case marking and in verb agreement. The occurrence of pronominal suffixation in Kashmiri is related with the universal feature of referential hierarchies and the phenomenon of verb second word order. The grammatical structure of Kashmiri is situated in the linguistic area of the Himalayas, and minority languages in the area are discussed as well. The book draws on a wealth of examples from field work, local manuscripts and secondary sources and it is a first comprehensive overview of the grammatical features of Kashmiri from a typological point of view.

Saartje Verbeke, Ph.D. (1985) is Research Fellow of the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO) in Linguistics and Visiting Professor in India Studies at Ghent University. She has published monographs, including Ergativity in Indo-Aryan (Mouton de Gruyter 2013) and articles on Indo-Aryan linguistics.