Experiencer Subjects in South Asian Languages

Download or read book Experiencer Subjects in South Asian Languages written by Mahendra K. Verma and published by Center for the Study of Language (CSLI). This book was released on 1990 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These papers explore an important syntactic feature of South Asian languages, the experiencer subject construction. Contributing scholars investigate this feature in such languages as Marathi, Bhojpuri, Sinhalese, Marwari, Oriya, Punjabi, Bengali, Kalasha, Gujarati, Bepali, Maithili, and Malayalam. The experiencer subject not only defines South Asian languages as a linguistic unit, but also has implications for theoretical linguistics. Mahendra Verma is a professor of linguistics at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Tara Mohanan is a linguistics professor in the English department of the National University of Singapore.