none 10.1075/la.209.10gro John Benjamins Publishing Company John Benjamins Publishing Company 1757 67811564 1505052 1420043 202507022305000012 10.1075 2025-07-02T21:05:04Z 2014-03-20T17:16:53Z 25 0166-0829 10.1075/la https://benjamins.com/ catalog/la Pritha Chandra Indian Institute of Technology New Delhi https://ror.org/049tgcd06 Richa Srishti Central Institute of Indian Languages Mysore Perspectives from South Asian languages The present collection offers fresh perspectives on the lexicon-syntax interface, drawing on novel data from South Asian languages like Bangla, Hindi-Urdu, Kashmiri, Kannada, Malayalam, Manipuri, Punjabi, and Telugu. It covers different phenomena like adjectives, nominal phrases, ditransitives, light verbs, middles, passives, causatives, agreement, and pronominal clitics, while trying to settle the theoretical tensions underlying the interaction of the lexicon with the narrow syntactic component. All the chapters critically survey previous analyses in detail, suggesting how these may or may not be extended to South Asian languages. Novel explanations are proposed, which handle not only the novel data presented here, but also pave alternative ways to look at issues of minimalist architecture. 209 3 25 2014 3 7 2014 9789027255921 9789027270825 John Benjamins Publishing Company Amsterdam 10.1075/la.209 http://www.jbe-platform.com/content/books/9789027270825 https://www.jbe-platform.com/deliver/fulltext/9789027270825.pdf https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1075/la.209/html Patrick Georg Grosz Universität Tübingen https://ror.org/03a1kwz48 Pritty Patel-Grosz Universität Tübingen https://ror.org/03a1kwz48 This paper explores the φ-agreement system in Kutchi Gujarati, focusing on canonical transitive cases and on non-canonical cases involving psych predicates and modal auxiliaries. Based on the agreement pattern in the future perfect, we argue that φ-agreement in Kutchi Gujarati involves two agreement probes, a higher (number/person) probe in T , and a lower (gender/number) probe in the v/Asp area. After showing how such a system derives the split-ergative agreement pattern in canonical transitive constructions (Section 2), we extend our analysis to other types of verbs, specifically to psych predicates (such as gam ‘like’) and to constructions that involve modal auxiliaries (such as par ‘have to’), both of which require a dative-marked subject (Section 3). 3 25 2014 3 7 2014 217 244 10.1075/la.209.10gro https://benjamins.com/catalog/la.209.10gro https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1075/la.209.10gro/html 10.1017/CBO9780511619830 10.1007/s11049-004-4136-0 10.1007/s11049-013-9203-y BE-ing Default: the Morphosyntax of Auxiliaries Bjorkman 2011 Papers on Case and Agreement II. 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