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<DOCINFOAUTHOR""TITLE"LinguisticTheoryandSouthAsianLanguages:EssaysinhonourofK.A.Jayaseelan"SUBJECT"LinguistikAktuell/LinguisticsToday,Volume102"KEYWORDS""SIZEHEIGHT"240"WIDTH"160"VOFFSET"4"> LinguisticTheoryandSouthAsianLanguages LinguistikAktuell/LinguisticsToday LinguistikAktuell/LinguisticsToday(LA)providesaplatformfororiginalmonographstudies intosynchronicanddiachroniclinguistics.StudiesinLAconfrontempiricalandtheoretical problemsasthesearecurrentlydiscussedinsyntax,semantics,morphology,phonology,and systematicpragmaticswiththeaimtoestablishrobustempiricalgeneralizationswithina universalisticperspective. SeriesEditors WernerAbraham EllyvanGelderen UniversityofVienna ArizonaStateUniversity AdvisoryEditorialBoard CedricBoeckx IanRoberts HarvardUniversity CambridgeUniversity GuglielmoCinque KenSafir UniversityofVenice RutgersUniversity,NewBrunswickNJ GüntherGrewendorf LisadeMenaTravis J.W.Goethe-University,Frankfurt McGillUniversity LilianeHaegeman StenVikner UniversityofLille,France UniversityofAarhus HubertHaider C.Jan-WouterZwart UniversityofSalzburg UniversityofGroningen ChristerPlatzack UniversityofLund Volume102 LinguisticTheoryandSouthAsianLanguages EssaysinhonourofK.A.Jayaseelan EditedbyJosefBayer,TanmoyBhattacharyaandM.T.HanyBabu Linguistic Theory and South Asian Languages Essays in honour of K. A. Jayaseelan Editedby Josef Bayer UniversityofKonstanz Tanmoy Bhattacharya UniversityofDelhi M.T. Hany Babu CentralInstituteofEnglishandForeignLanguages,Hyderabad JohnBenjaminsPublishingCompany Amsterdam(cid:2)/(cid:2)Philadelphia TM Thepaperusedinthispublicationmeetstheminimumrequirements 8 ofAmericanNationalStandardforInformationSciences–Permanence ofPaperforPrintedLibraryMaterials,ansiz39.48-1984. LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData Linguistictheoryandsouthasianlanguages:essaysinhonourofK.A. Jayaseelan/editedbyJosefBayer,TanmoyBhattacharyaandM.T.Hany Babu. p. cm.(LinguistikAktuell/LinguisticsToday,issn0166–0829;v. 102) Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. 1.SouthAsia--Languages--Syntax.2.Grammar,Comparativeand general--Syntax.I.Jayaseelan,K.A.II.Bayer,Josef.III.Bhattacharya, Tanm oy.IV.Babu,Hany. P381.S58L56 2007 495--dc22 2007005103 isbn9789027233660(Hb;alk.paper) ©2007–JohnBenjaminsB.V. Nopartofthisbookmaybereproducedinanyform,byprint,photoprint,microfilm,or anyothermeans,withoutwrittenpermissionfromthepublisher. JohnBenjaminsPublishingCo.·P.O.Box36224·1020meAmsterdam·TheNetherlands JohnBenjaminsNorthAmerica·P.O.Box27519·Philadelphiapa19118-0519·usa K. A. Jayaseelan Table of contents Acknowledgements ix Introduction Josef Bayer, Tanmoy Bhattacharya and M. T. Hany Babu 1 Clause Structure What is ‘Argument Sharing’? 15 A Case Study on Argument Sharing under VP-Serialization in Oriya Dorothee Beermann, Kalyanamalini Sahoo and Lars Hellan Pseudoclefts: a Fully Derivational Account 29 Cedric Boeckx The Cleft Question and the Question of Cleft 41 P. Madhavan Clausal Pied-piping and Subjacency 53 K. Srikumar Modification in DP On the Syntax of Quantity in English 73 Richard S. Kayne Binding Coreference Violations ‘Beyond Principle B’ 109 Jaqueline Guéron Perspectives on Binding 127 Eric Reuland viii Raising from a Tensed Clause and Linguistic Theory: Evidence from Maithili 143 Yogendra P. Yadava Complementizers and Complementation The Ubiquitous Complementizer 163 Probal Dasgupta Word Order, Parameters, and the Extended COMP Projection 175 Alice Davison The Particle ne in Direct yes-no Questions 199 Madhumita Barbora Phonology Underspecification and the Phonology of *NC(cid:26)-Effects in Malayalam 217 Shyamal Das The Disyllabic Word Minimum: Variations on a Theme in Bangla, 237 Punjabi and Tamil K.G.Vijayakrishnan Writing Systems and Phonological Awareness 249 Pingali Sailaja List of contributors 267 Bibliography of K. A. Jayaseelan 271 Index of names 275 Index of languages 279 Index of topics 281 i.exe Acknowledgements We gratefully acknowledge the help in preparing this volume which we received from Uli Lutz and Benedikt Grimmler as well as the financial support we received from the University of Konstanz and from the Sonderforschungsbereich 471 “Variation und Entwicklung im Lexikon” (Variation and Development in the Lexicon). We would also like to thank Werner Abraham for inviting us to publish this collection of papers in the series Linguistik Aktuell / Linguistics Today, and Kees Vaes from John Benjamins for his patience.
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