Clause structure in South Asian languages

Abstract

Clause structure in South Asian languages : general introduction / Veneeta Dayal and Anoop Mahajan -- 1. Some developments in the functional architecture of the Kannada clause / R. Amritavalli -- 2. Two types of negation in Bengali / Gillian Ramchand -- 3. The serial verb construction in Malayalam / K.A. Jayaseelan -- 4. Causation and reflexivity in Kannada / Jeffrey Lidz -- 5. Light verb raising, empty preposition and zero derivation / P. Madhavan -- 6. The status of case / Miriam Butt and Tracy King -- 7. Structural case, lexical case and the verbal projection / Alice Davison -- 8. Particle movement in Sinhala and Japanese / Paul Hagstrom -- 9. The topic interpretation in universal grammar / Ayesha Kidwai -- 10. Remarks on adsentential, adnominal, and extraposed relative clauses in Hindi / James D. McCawley.