30.4139, Books: Malayalam Verbs: Swenson

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Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2019 16:28:48
From: Asja Kusnezowa [Asja.Kusnezowa at degruyter.com]
Subject: Malayalam Verbs: Swenson

 


Title: Malayalam Verbs 
Subtitle: Functional Structure and Morphosemantics 
Series Title: Studies in Generative Grammar [SGG]  

Publication Year: 2019 
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
	   http://www.degruyter.com/mouton
	

Book URL: https://bit.ly/2qIGyif 


Author: Amanda Swenson

Hardback: ISBN:  9781501516917 Pages: 270 Price: U.S. $ 114.99


Abstract:

This book, using Malayalam as a case study, provides an in-depth exploration
of how inflectional suffixes should be separated from the verb and the
implications this has for the syntax and semantics. Past work has proposed
that Malayalam lacks a Tense Phrase and tense morphology, i.e. is ‘tenseless’.
However, this book shows that Malayalam behaves differently from other
tenseless languages and that it does have tense morphology. It also provides
evidence that there is a Tense Phrase in the syntax. In addition, it examines
what have been called the two 'imperfectives' and argues that one is a type of
progressive, while the other is a pluractional marker and shows that Malayalam
lacks perfect morphology and a Perfect Phrase in, minimally, Universal
perfects. With respect to finiteness, among other things, it argues that
Conjunctive Participles are best analyzed as a type of absolutive adjunct and
that -athu ‘gerunds’ involve nominalization above the Tense Phrase-level. This
book will be a valuable resource for anyone interested in cross-linguistic
variation in Tense-Aspect-Modality and/or the morphosyntax or morphosemantics
of Dravidian languages.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Morphology
                     Semantics
                     Syntax

Subject Language(s): Malayalam (mal)


Written In: English  (eng)

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