2005

South Asia is home to a large number of languages and dialects. Although linguists working on this region have made significant contributions to our understanding of language, society, and language in society on a global scale, there is as yet no recognized international forum for the exchange of ideas amongst linguists working on South Asia. The Yearbook of South Asian Languages and Linguistics is designed to be just that forum. It will bring together empirical and theoretical research and serve as a testing ground for the articulation of new ideas and approaches which may be grounded in a study of South Asian languages but which have universal applicability.

Auteur

Rajendra Singh is Professor of Linguistics, Philology and Translation at the Université de Montréal, Canada.

Résumé

South Asia is home to a large number of languages and dialects. The considerable body of linguists working on this region have made significant contributions to our understanding of language, society, and language in society on a global scale. Despite this, there is as yet no recognized international forum for the exchange of ideas amongst South Asian linguists. The YEARBOOK OF SOUTH ASIAN LANGUAGES AND LINGUISTICS is designed to be just that forum. It brings together empirical and theoretical research and serves as a testing ground for the articulation of new ideas and approaches which may be grounded in a study of South Asian languages but which have universal applicability.

Each volume of this annual series will have four major sections:
I. Invited contributions consisting of state-of-the-art essays on research in South Asian languages.
II. Refereed open submissions focusing on relevant issues and providing various viewpoints.
III. Reports from around the world book reviews and abstracts of doctoral theses.
IV. A forum for dialogue; critiques; comments and discussions; reports on research activities; and conference announcements.

In the words of the Editor-in-Chief, 'other than excellence and non-isolationism, we have no agenda and no thematic priorities'. This pioneering series will interest all those in the fields of sociolinguistics, language studies, grammar, literature and sociology.

Contenu

Tanmoy Bhattacharya, Introduction; Enoch Aboh, Roland Pfau and Ulrike Zeshan; When a Wh-word is not a Wh-word: The case of Indian Sign Language; Probal Dasgupta, Q-baa and Bangla Clause Structure; Alice Davison, Phrasal Predicates: How N Combines with V in Hindi/Urdu. James W. Gair, Some Aspects of Finiteness and Control in Sinhala; Hans henrich Hock, How Strict is Strict OV? A Family of Typological Constraints with Focus on South Asia; Peter Edwin Hook an Muhammad Amin Zia, Searching for the Goddes: A Study of Sensory and Other Impersonal Causative Eypressions in the Shina of Gilgit; Ayesha Kidwai, Santali 'Backernagel' Clitics: Distributing Clitic Doubling; Paul Kiparsky, The Vedic Injunctive: Historical and Synchronic Implications; Jeffery Lidz and Alexander Williams, On the Absence of Reflexive Benefactives in Kannada; Karumuri V. Subbarao and Mimi Kivichusa, Internally Headed Relative Clauses in Sema; Announcements; The Gyandeep Prize / Housekeeping; Notes on Contributors.