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UNINA9910974142603321 |
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Autore |
Subbarao K. V (Karumuri V.), <1941-> |
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Titolo |
South Asian languages : a syntactic typology / / Kārumūri V. Subbārāo |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2012 |
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ISBN |
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1-107-21853-5 |
1-139-23422-6 |
1-280-87776-6 |
9786613719072 |
1-139-23272-X |
1-139-23049-2 |
1-139-22905-2 |
1-139-23350-5 |
1-139-23196-0 |
1-139-00357-7 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xix, 369 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
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Classificazione |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Grammar, Comparative and general - Syntax |
South Asia Languages |
South Asia Languages Grammar |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 313-355) and indexes. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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1. Introduction -- 2. South Asian languages: a preview -- 3. Lexical anaphors and pronouns in South Asian languages -- 4. Case and agreement -- 5. Non-nominative subjects -- 6. Complementation -- 7. Backward control -- 8. Noun modification: relative clauses. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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South Asian languages are rich in linguistic diversity and number. This book explores the similarities and differences of about forty languages from the four different language families (Austro-Asiatic, Dravidian, Indo-Aryan (Indo-European) and Tibeto-Burman (Sino-Tibetan)). It focuses on the syntactic typology of these languages and the high degree of syntactic convergence, with special reference to the notion of 'India as a linguistic area'. Several areas of current theoretical interest such as anaphora, control theory, case and agreement, relative clauses |
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