The Syntax of Negation and the Licensing of Negative Polarity Items in Hindi

ISBN-13: 9780415976466 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 200 str.

Rajesh Kumar

Opis

Studies syntax of NPIs and their interaction with sentential negatives in Hindi. This book outlines the clause structure of Hindi and locates the syntactic position of sentential negatives as well as constituent negatives within the structure.

Spis treści

Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Clause Structure of Hindi; Chapter 3 Syntax of Negation in Hindi: Description and Representation; Chapter 4 Negative Polarity Items in Hindi and the Structural Conditions on Their Licensing; Chapter 5 Syntactic Constraints on NPIs in Hindi;

O autorze

Rajesh Kumar teaches Hindi at the Department of Asian Studies of the University of Texas at Austin. He graduated with a Ph.D. in Linguistics from the Department of Linguistics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His research interest lies of South Asian and Tibeto-Burman Languages.