The Tamil auxiliary verb system
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The Tamil auxiliary verb system
(RoutledgeCurzon Asian linguistics series / Walter Bisang, editor-in-chief ; R.V. Dhongde & Masayoshi Shibatani, associate editors)
Routledge, 2005
Available at 10 libraries
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Note
Bibliography: p. [303]-309
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book introduces the syntactic process of auxiliary formation and applies it to the grammatical analysis of the indicative, or non-modal, auxiliary verbs of Modern Tamil. Using data from spoken and written registers gathered over several years, the book demonstrates for the first time the systematic nature of auxiliary verb phenomena, and how they are integrated into the grammar of the language.
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.
Table of Contents
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.
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