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This book is an endeavour to probe into the areas of Hindi syntax which have been rather under-explored in the generative literature. It investigates the syntax and semantics of Hindi verbs and their argument structure alternations Otherin the minimalist framework. In the course of this exploration it examines unaccusativity, unergativity, transitive, causative alternations and passives in Hindi. The book will be of interest to the theoretical linguists, computational linguists as well as to t...

Hindi language --- Hindustani language --- Verb. --- Syntax. --- Hindi.

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This book presents the structure of Hindi keeping in view the sociolinguistic context of language use. It includes descriptions of sounds, devices of word formation, rules of phrase and sentence construction and conventions of language use in spoken and written texts incorporating the insights gained by application of recent linguistic theories. The account presented here, however, is free from abstruse technical vocabulary and modes of presentation that aim at justifying a particular linguistic model. This volume is primarily designed as a source of reference for linguists and educators who want to be better informed about the forms and functions of Hindi, and a resource for students and teachers of Hindi.Hindi, the official language of the Republic of India, is the second most widely spoken language with approximately three hundred and fifty million speakers. In its diasporic contexts, it is spoken in Africa, Australia, Europe, Fiji, Guyana, Surinam, Trinidad, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom and United States. An Indo-European language by genetic affiliation, Hindi shares many characteristics with Austro-Asiatic, Dravidian, and Sino-Tibetan languages of the subcontinent. In addition, Hindi has assimilated features of Arabic, Persian and English in a variety of its functionally determined styles.

Indic languages --- Grammar --- Hindi (språk). --- Hindi language --- Grammar. --- Hindustani language

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This text investigates the properties of Hindi-Urdu scrambling to show that it must be analyzed as uniformly a focality-driven XP-adjunction operation. It will be of interest to both students and specialists in Hindi/Urdu syntax.

Grammar, Comparative and general --- Hindi language --- Urdu language --- Bihari language (Urdu) --- Gujri language --- Gurjari language --- Islami language --- Moorish language (India) --- Undri language --- Urudu language --- Hindustani language --- Language and languages --- Syntax --- Syntax. --- Linguistics --- Philology --- Grammar, Comparative and general Syntax --- Grammar, Generative.

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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

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The book explores the historical dimension of Indian indenture from within the lived experience of laborers, who emigrated to Fiji from colonial India a century ago. As these laborers are no longer alive, one could argue that the experience of indenture is no longer accessible, if there had not been recordings of the laborers' life narratives. It is seven of these audio recordings, made for public broadcast, which form the data for a fine-grained language-analysis to unearth the life-world of indenture. Through the merging of Labov's high-point analysis with Bamberg's posit

East Indians --- Indentured servants --- Discourse analysis, Narrative. --- Fiji Hindi language. --- Servants, Indentured --- Contract labor --- Slave labor --- Asian Indians --- Indians, East --- Indians (India) --- Indic peoples --- Ethnology --- Fijian Hindi language --- Hindi language, Fijian --- Hindustani language --- Narrative discourse analysis --- Narration (Rhetoric) --- Social conditions. --- Fiji --- India --- Fig'i --- Iye Fig'i --- Feejee --- Feejee Islands --- Fiji Islands --- Fei-chi kuo --- Fei-chi --- Fei-chi chʻün tao --- Fidschi --- Republic of Fiji --- Republic of the Fiji Islands --- Fijian Republic --- Matanitu ko Viti --- Matanitu Tu-Vaka-i-koya ko Viti --- Fijī Ripablik --- Fidji --- Fichi --- Republica d'as Islas Fichi --- Ficgiege --- Fixi --- República de les Islles Fixi --- Fici adaları --- Фіджы --- Fidz︠h︡y --- Fidži --- Republika Fidži ostrva --- Фиджи --- Fidzhi --- Република Фиджи --- Republika Fidzhi --- Fidžijská republika --- Gweriniaeth Ynysoedd Fiji --- Republik Fidschi-Inseln --- Fííjii --- Fidži Vabariik --- Φίτζι --- Phitzi --- Δημοκρατία των Νησιών Φίτζι --- Dēmokratia tōn Nēsiōn Phitzi --- Fiyi --- República de las Islas Fiyi --- Fiĝioj --- Fiji uharteetako Errepublika --- République des îles Fidji --- Fidzjy --- Fidsí --- Poblacht Oileán Fhidsí --- Pobblaght Ellanyn Fiji --- Fìdi --- Fidxi --- República das Illas Fidxi --- 피지 --- Pʻiji --- Republika Fidžijskoga Otočja --- Republica dagiti Isla ti Fiji --- Republik Kepulauan Fiji --- Fídjieyjar --- Fijieyjar --- Lýðveldið Fídjieyjar --- פיג׳י --- Jamhuri ya Visiwa vya Fiji --- Viti --- Insulae Vitienses --- Insulae Fisienses --- Res Publica Insularum Vitiensium --- Fidži Salu Republika --- Fidžis --- Fidžio Salų Respublika --- Fidzsi-szigetek --- Фиџи --- Република Фиџиски Острови --- Republika Fidžiski Ostrovi --- Tlācatlahtohcāyōtl in Tlālhuāctli Fiyi --- Bidji --- Republiek Fiji-eilanden --- フィジー --- Republikken Fijiøyene --- Republikken Fijiøyane --- Fiji Orollar Respublikasi --- Republika Wysp Fidżi --- Fidźi Dwip-samuh Ganaradźja --- República de Fiji --- República de Fidji --- República das Ilhas Fiji --- Republica Insulelor Fiji --- Phiyi --- Phiyi Wat'akuna Republika --- Witi --- Республика Островов Фиджи --- Respublika Ostrovov Fidzhi --- Fiži --- Fiti --- Fidyïi --- Ködörösêse tî mbênî Fidyïi Zûa --- Fixhi --- Republika e Ishujve Fixhi --- Figgi --- Republika Fidžijských ostrovov --- Republika Fidžijski otoki --- Republika Wyspůw Fidżi --- Република Фиџи Острва --- Fidžisaarten tasavalta --- Republiken Fijiöarna --- Fidzji --- Pidyi --- Republika ng mga Pulo ng Pidyi --- Republika ng Kapuluan ng Pidyi --- Fisi --- Fiji Adaları Cumhuriyeti --- Фіджі --- Республіка Фіджі --- Respublika Fidz︠h︡i --- Cộng hòa Quần đảo Fiji --- Ficiyuäns --- Fijii --- Republik bu iil yu Fiiji --- Fici --- Fėdžis --- Fėdžė Salū Respoblėka --- 斐济 --- Feiji --- Emigration and immigration. --- Race relations --- Political aspects. --- Colony of Fiji