Trends in Hindi Linguistics (Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] Book 325)

Trends in Hindi Linguistics provides a snapshot of current developments in Hindi syntax and semantics and covers topics such as definiteness marking, comparative constructions with differentials, conjunct verbs, participial relative clauses, ellipsis, scrambling, infinitives and directive strategies. Together these papers give a rich and in-depth account of the vitality of current research on Hindi.

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Preface 7 Contents 9 Acknowledgements 11 Transliteration 13 (In)definiteness without articles: diagnosis, analysis, implications 15 Differential comparatives in Hindi-Urdu 41 The structure of complex predicates in Hindi-Urdu: evidence from verb-phrase ellipsis 61 Case licensing in Hindi prenominal relative clauses 99 Constraints on attributive functions of Hindi perfect participles manifesting the resultant state 121 On the nature of the Hindi infinitive: History as an answer to its syntactic behavior? 129 Main verb form in structures of ability/possibility in Hindi 161 Agreement in conjunct verb construction: let’s solve the problem 201 Conjunct verbs in Hindi 231 Impersonal expressions in Hindi-Urdu and phantom valents in Kashmiri 259 An attempt to understand the encoding of reduced transitivity in Hindi: the case of compound verbs with jānā 279 Syntactic constraints in modern Hindi 301 A pragmatic account of directive strategies in Hindi 317 Discovering the Hindi grammatical tradition: Historicity and second language acquisition 347 List of contributors 369 Index 373 The series publishes state-of-the-art work on core areas of linguistics across theoretical frameworks as well as studies that provide new insights by building bridges to neighbouring fields such as neuroscience and cognitive science. The series considers itself a forum for cutting-edge research based on solid empirical data on language in its various manifestations, including sign languages. It regards linguistic variation in its synchronic and diachronic dimensions as well as in its social contexts as important sources of insight for a better understanding of the design of linguistic systems