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The present volume is a collection of textual studies on various features of the history and culture of Kashmir. It is mainly based on revised versions of lectures delivered at a "Kashmir panel" held at the 31st German Oriental Conference (DOT) in Marburg in 2010. It deals with the transfer of India’s sacred geography to the highlands of Kashmir in a miniaturized form, a previously unnoticed recording of an appearance of Halley’s Comet in Kashmir by the poet-historian Śrīvara, the historical traces of vocal and instrumental music (saṅgīta) in Kashmir, as well as with the poetical figure bhāṣāśleṣa (simultaneous expression of different meanings in two or more languages) as a peculiarity of Kashmiri writers and critics. Further subjects are the formation of a specifically Kashmiri literary genre— the Kashmiri kathā—and the development of a special style connected to it, and the question, when, where and why did Bhaṭṭa Jayanta write his Nyāyamanjarī. A collection of four contributions, dealing with different aspects of the Mokṣopāya/Yogavāsiṣṭha literature, completes the volume.

Kashmiri language --- Jammu and Kashmir (India)

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Hindi language --- Kashmiri language --- Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.

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India -- Languages

India --- Language and languages --- Indo-Aryan languages [Modern ] --- Sindhi language --- Lahndýa language --- Siraiki Hindki dialect --- Pisacha languages --- Kashmiri language

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Be (The English word) --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Japanese language --- Kashmiri language --- Armenian language --- Hungarian language --- Sumerian language --- Shona language --- Verb. --- Verb

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This research monograph is an investigation of wh-movement and wh-expletive constructions in the Indic languages Kashmiri and Hindi-Urdu. It advances a novel theory of the periphery, or the clausal positions that mediate A-bar movement. In particular, a detailed study of wh-expletives and wh-expletive constructions reveals an underlying similarity of design between the A and A-bar systems, and indicates that the two can be understood as driven by the same basic set of mechanisms. The monograph offers an account of wh-movement and the clausal periphery in the two languages, informed by the latest strands of research on the syntax and semantics of A-bar movement. This micro-comparative analytical method yields an important result: we can understand a set of systematic contrasts between the two languages in terms of the properties of specifically the phase-defining heads C and v. Empirically, this work explores the lesser-studied language Kashmiri, bringing to the fore linguistic data not yet discussed in formal syntactic literature. The significance of these data for the development of the wider theoretical framework is stressed throughout, making the book of substantial interest for general linguistic research.

Grammar, Comparative and general --- Kashmiri language --- Hindi language --- Urdu language --- Bihari language (Urdu) --- Gujri language --- Gurjari language --- Islami language --- Moorish language (India) --- Undri language --- Urudu language --- Hindustani language --- Cashmeeree language --- Cashmiri language --- Kacmiri language --- Kaschemiri language --- Kāšur language --- Keshur language --- Dardic languages --- Language and languages --- Syntax --- Syntax. --- Linguistics --- Philology --- Grammar, Comparative and general Syntax