Experiencer Subjects in South Asian Languages (Center for the Study of Language and Information - Lecture Notes)

By K.P. Mohanan and K. Mohanan

Book Overview

These papers explore an important syntactic feature of South Asian languages, the experiencer subject construction. Contributing scholars investigate this feature in such languages as Marathi, Bhojpuri, Sinhalese, Marwari, Oriya, Punjabi, Bengali, Kalasha, Gujarati, Bepali, Maithili, and Malayalam. The experiencer subject not only defines South Asian languages as a linguistic unit, but also has implications for theoretical linguistics. Mahendra Verma is a professor of linguistics at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Tara Mohanan is a linguistics professor in the English department of the National University of Singapore. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0937073601
• ISBN13: 9780937073605
• Release Date: June 1991
• Publisher: Center for the Study of Language and Informat
• Length: 371 Pages