Verb Movement and the Syntax of Kashmiri

This book investigates the phenomenon of verb-second in a language outside the Germanic family, a relatively unknown and unanalyzed Indo-Aryan language called Kashmiri. Kashmiri is unique in that it exhibits both the German/Dutch type of verb-second as well as the Yiddish/Icelandic type. The comparative theoretical treatment adopted in this book serves three functions. First, it provides an opportunity to examine and ascertain the limitations of the current models of verb-second grammar in light of new, typologically different data. Second, it presents a parametric account of verb-second and explores its consequences for a general theory of verb movement, mainly in terms of triggers, landing sites, and clause structure. Third, it proposes a theory of Case and Checking that locates the structural positions where grammatical functions are licensed in verb-second clause-structure. The discussions also include a comprehensive account of most of the central and crucial syntactic processes of Kashmiri.

ISBN 0792360338   Volumes 1 ISBN13 9780792360339 (What's this?)   Weight (grammes) 615 Publisher Kluwer Academic Publishers   Published in Dordrecht Imprint Kluwer Academic Publishers   Series ISSN 46 Format Hardback   Series title Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory Publication date 01 Oct 1999   Height (mm) 240 Library of Congress 99055907   Width (mm) 160 DEWEY 491.499   Spine width (mm) 20 DEWEY edition DC21   Academic level Undergraduate, Postgraduate, Professional / Scholarly Pages 308

		Acknowledgments
		List of abbreviations
1		Introduction		1
2		The Kashmiri Language		22
3		Configurationality and Phrase Structure		43
4		Verb-Second (V2) Phenomena		80
5		Motivating Verb Movement		131
6		Subject Position, Object Positions, and Case		169
7		Epilogue		256
		References		264
		Language Index		279
		Name Index		281
		Subject Index		285

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