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from Morphology, Syntax, and Semantics
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 26 October 2011
Abstract
Explicator Compound Verbs (ecv) (see Abbi 1991, 1999, Masica 1976, Hook 1976), are a widespread areal feature of South-Asian languages which are also familiar features of Assamese and Kashmiri. The significance and structure of the ecv construction will be discussed in this paper in the context of these two languages.
Despite belonging to the same language family (i.e., Indo-Aryan), Assamese and Kashmiri differ from each other in terms of word order typology: Assamese is an SOV language and Kashmiri an SVO. They also show dissimilarity in the ecv sequence. In Assamese, the sequence is V1V2 and in Kashmiri, V2V1 (where V1 is the main verb and V2 the “explicator” or “vector” verb.
This paper will present a general overview of the nature of ecv systems in Assamese and Kashmiri, also discussing their similarities and differences. It will also examine the frequency and various grammatical functions of ecvs in these languages, and try to represent a general scenario of ecv structures along with the assessment of (un)grammaticality of their occurrence.
There are common characteristic properties of ecvs in Indian languages. Assamese and Kashmiri share some of them and differ in terms of others. The classification of ecvs and ecv constructions in these languages advanced in this paper is based on these properties.
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