This volume collects twenty-nine published and unpublished papers by the linguist James Gair, considered the foremost western scholar of the Sri Lankan languages Sinhala and Jaffna Tamil. Ranging over thirty years, his work also considers issues in a variety of Indian languages, including Hindi, Marathi, Tamil, Malayalam, and Bengali. The collection reflects the wide range of Gair's interests, from morpho-syntactic questions to questions regarding historical and areal linguistics, especially language contact and diglossia, and extending to language acquisition. By collecting these papers and making them newly accessible, this volume will provide an important resource not only for scholars of these languages but for linguists interested in the theoretical issues Gair explores.
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forward directionality constraint, nonverbal predicators, nominal equational sentences, accusative rule, dative case nominals, nonverbal sentences, jab clauses, proform type, situational deixis, nominative rule, pronominal verb forms, pragmatic lead, assertion marker, relativizing form, diglossic language, predicator sentences, nonconfigurational languages, inanimate nominals, adjectival sentences, lexical pronoun, focused sentences, agr element, anaphoric forms, aspirate consonants, proximal forms Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Literary Sinhala, Jaffna Tamil, Sri Lanka, South Asian, Formal Spoken Sinhala, Colloquial Sinhalese, Literary Sinhalese, New York, Masculine Reference, Universal Grammar, John Paolillo, Middle Indic, South Indian, Spoken Sinhalese, Dravidianization of Sinhala New!
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forward directionality constraint, nonverbal predicators, nominal equational sentences, accusative rule, dative case nominals, nonverbal sentences, jab clauses, proform type, situational deixis, nominative rule, pronominal verb forms, pragmatic lead, assertion marker, relativizing form, diglossic language, predicator sentences, nonconfigurational languages, inanimate nominals, adjectival sentences, lexical pronoun, focused sentences, agr element, anaphoric forms, aspirate consonants, proximal forms Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Literary Sinhala, Jaffna Tamil, Sri Lanka, South Asian, Formal Spoken Sinhala, Colloquial Sinhalese, Literary Sinhalese, New York, Masculine Reference, Universal Grammar, John Paolillo, Middle Indic, South Indian, Spoken Sinhalese, Dravidianization of Sinhala New!
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- South Asian Languages: Structure, Convergence and Diglossia by B. Krishnamurti on 10 pages
- The Teaching and Acquisition of South Asian Languages by Vijay Gambhir on 4 pages
- The Mental Representation of Grammatical Relations (Cognitive Theory and Mental Representation) by Joan Bresnan in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Studies in the Acquisition of Anaphora: Volume II: Applying the Constraints (Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics) by B. Lust in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Pidginization and Creolization of Languages by D. Hymes in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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- Clause Structure in South Asian Languages (Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory) by V. Dayal on page 251
- Clause Structure in South Asian Languages (Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory) by V. Dayal on page 251
- Pronouns (Oxford Studies in Typology and Linguistic Theory) by D. N. S. Bhat in Back Matter
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