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2280 results in Asian language and linguistics

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South Asian Languages
  • A Syntactic Typology
  • Kārumūri V. Subbārāo
  • Published online:
    05 March 2012
    Print publication:
    26 March 2012
  • South Asian languages are rich in linguistic diversity and number. This book explores the similarities and differences of about forty languages from the four different language families (Austro-Asiatic, Dravidian, Indo-Aryan (Indo-European) and Tibeto-Burman (Sino-Tibetan)). It focuses on the syntactic typology of these languages and the high degree of syntactic convergence, with special reference to the notion of 'India as a linguistic area'. Several areas of current theoretical interest such as anaphora, control theory, case and agreement, relative clauses and the significance of thematic roles in grammar are discussed. The analysis presented has significant implications for current theories of syntax, verbal semantics, first and second language acquisition, structural language typology and historical linguistics. The book will be of interest to linguists working on the description of South Asian languages, as well as syntacticians wishing to discover more about the common structure of languages within this region.

  • 3 - Variation in the Order of Modification in Tai Ahom: An Indication of Historical Boro-Garo Influence?

  • from History, Contact and Evolution
  • Edited by Gwendolyn Hyslop, Specialist in the East Bodish languages of Bhutan and Arunachal Pradesh, Stephen Morey, Associate Director of the Research Centre for Linguistic Typology at La Trobe University, Mark W. Post, Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Anthropological Linguistics at The Cairns Institute of James Cook University in Cairns, Australia
  • Book:
    North East Indian Linguistics
    Published by:
    Foundation Books
    Published online:
    05 May 2013
    Print publication:
    01 January 2012, pp 36-57

  • Summary

    Introduction

    Typically in Tai languages the head precedes the modifier. As Morey says, “The noun phrase in the Tai languages is a strongly head initial structure”. He adds, “if there is more than one modifier in an NP, the most unmarked order appears to be – Noun > Adjective > Possessor > Classifier > Relative Clause > Demonstrative. Though there are no examples in the corpus of texts showing all of the possible modifiers.” (Morey 2005: 259) This order of modification is attested in the Tai Ahom language, spoken during the Ahom kingdom that ruled in Assam in the period 1228-1824. This unmarked order is found in Ahom manuscripts; however, some variant orders are also found.

    We begin the paper with a brief history of Ahom which is discussed in section 2. In section 3, I provide the source of manuscripts used for the study and, in section 4, I discuss briefly about modification process in general. Following it, in section 5, I present an outline of the linguistic features of Ahom, and move on to discuss modification at a language-particular level in section 6. Section 6.1 deals with different kinds of modifiers. With this we turn in section 7 to a survey of the unmarked order of constituents and subsequently look at modification order of expressives in section 7.1. The next two sub-sections, i.e. 7.1.1 and 7.1.2 explore the functions of expressives as modifiers and as intensifiers.

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