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Malayalam Verbs - Functional Structure and Morphosemantics (Hardcover)
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Malayalam Verbs - Functional Structure and Morphosemantics (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in Generative Grammar [SGG]
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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.
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