The Tamil Auxiliary Verb System

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.

Auteur

Sanford B Steever holds three degrees in Linguistics and a diploma in Tamil. The author of four books and fifty articles on Historical Linguistics, Syntax, Dravidian Linguistics and Tamil, he spent three years of study and fieldwork in India. He has been a member of the Linguistics Society of America for thirty years and is a life member of the Dravidian Linguistics Association.

Contenu

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.