ISBN:
9789401592796
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (XIV, 294 p)
,
digital
Edition:
Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
Series Statement:
Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 46
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Keywords:
South Asian Languages
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Grammar, Comparative and general Syntax
;
Linguistics
;
Comparative linguistics
;
Germanic languages
;
Grammar, Comparative and general—Syntax.
;
Asia—Languages.
Abstract:
This book investigates the phenomenon of verb-second in a language outside the Germanic family, a relatively unknown and unanalyzed Indo-Aryan language called Kashmiri. Kashmiri is unique in that it exhibits both the German/Dutch type of verb-second as well as the Yiddish/Icelandic type. The comparative theoretical treatment adopted in this book serves three functions. First, it provides an opportunity to examine and ascertain the limitations of the current models of verb-second grammar in light of new, typologically different data. Second, it presents a parametric account of verb-second and explores its consequences for a general theory of verb movement, mainly in terms of triggers, landing sites, and clause structure. Third, it proposes a theory of Case and Checking that locates the structural positions where grammatical functions are licensed in verb-second clause-structure. The discussions also include a comprehensive account of most of the central and crucial syntactic processes of Kashmiri
DOI:
10.1007/978-94-015-9279-6
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