Experiencer Subjects in South Asian Languages

Manindra K. Verma and Tara Mohanan

These papers explore an important syntactic feature of South Asian languages, the experiencer subject construction. Contributing scholars investigate this feature in such languages as Marathai, Bhojpuri, Sinhalese, Marwari, Oriya, Punjabi, Bengali, Kalasha, Gujarati, Bepali, Maithili, and Malayalam. The experiencer subject not only defines South Asian languages as a linguistic until, but also has implications for theoretical linguistics.

Manindra Verma is a prrofessor of linguistics at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, K. P. Mohanan is a linguistics professor in the English department of the National University of Singapore.

Distributed for the Center for the Study of Language and Inforamtion

9/1/90

ISBN (Paperback): 0937073601

ISBN (Cloth): 093707361X

Subject: Linguistics; South Asian Languages--Noun Phrase