1st Edition
The Syntax of Negation and the Licensing of Negative Polarity Items in Hindi
By Rajesh Kumar
Copyright 2006
200 Pages
46 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
200 Pages
46 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
200 Pages
46 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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This books studies syntax of NPIs and their interaction with sentential negatives in Hindi. It outlines the clause structure of Hindi and locates the syntactic position of sentential negatives as well as constituent negatives within the structure. It is argued that sentential negative in Hindi negation marker heads its own maximal projection, NegP, which is immediately dominated by TP. In addition... Read more
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;
Biography
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.
