The Tamil Auxiliary Verb System
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-415-34672-6 (ISBN)
Including fresh information on new verb constructions, verbal categories and tenses, this book will be a welcome addition to the current general linguistics literature, in particular the study of verbal categories and the morphosyntactic processes that instantiate them.
Sanford B Steever holds three degrees in Linguistics and a diploma in Tamil. The author of four books and fifty articles on Historical Linguistics, Syntax, Dravidian Linguistics and Tamil, he spent three years of study and fieldwork in India. He has been a member of the Linguistics Society of America for thirty years and is a life member of the Dravidian Linguistics Association.
Preface -- Acknowledgement -- Abbreviations and conventions -- List of figures and tables -- 1 Auxiliary Formation -- 2 The Tamil background -- 3 Tamil verb morphology -- 4 The internal syntax of the Tamil indicative AVC -- 5 The external syntax of the Tamil indicative AVC -- 6 The major indicative auxiliary verbs of Tamil -- 7 The minor indicative auxiliary verbs of Tamil -- 8 Auxiliaries of attitude and abuse -- 9 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 8.8.2005 |
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Reihe/Serie | Routledge Studies in Asian Linguistics |
Verlagsort | London |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
Gewicht | 780 g |
Themenwelt | Sozialwissenschaften |
ISBN-10 | 0-415-34672-X / 041534672X |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-415-34672-6 / 9780415346726 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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