Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

I | SCRAMBLING AND WORD ORDER

  1. IP-Internal Topic and Focus Phrases

K. A. Jayaseelan

  2. Question Words in Focus Positions

K. A. Jayaseelan

  3. Scrambling in the Cleft Construction in Dravidian

K. A. Jayaseelan and R. Amritavalli

  4. Stacking, Stranding, and Pied-Piping: A Proposal about Word Order

K. A. Jayaseelan

II | THE SYNTAX OF QUESTIONS AND QUANTIFIERS

  5. Questions and Question-Word Incorporating Quantifiers in Malayalam

K. A. Jayaseelan

  6. Question and Negative Polarity in the Disjunction Phrase

R. Amritavalli

  7. Comparative Morphology of Quantifiers

K. A. Jayaseelan

  8. Question Particles and Disjunction

K. A. Jayaseelan

  9. Nominal and Interrogative Complements in Kannada

R. Amritavalli

10. Decomposing Coordination: The Two Operators of Coordination

K. A. Jayaseelan

III | FINITENESS AND NEGATION

11. Kannada Clause Structure

R. Amritavalli

12. Some Developments in the Functional Architecture of the Kannada Clause

R. Amritavalli

13. Finiteness and Negation in Dravidian

R. Amritavalli and K. A. Jayaseelan

14. The Acquisition of Negation in Tamil

R. Amritavalli and Deepti Ramadoss

15. Coordination, Relativization and Finiteness in Dravidian

K. A. Jayaseelan

16. Separating Tense and Finiteness: Anchoring in Dravidian

R. Amritavalli

IV | CASE AND ARGUMENT STRUCTURE

17. The Genesis of Syntactic Categories and Parametric Variation

R. Amritavalli and K. A. Jayaseelan

18. The Possessor/Experiencer Dative in Malayalam

K. A. Jayaseelan

19. The Serial Verb Construction in Malayalam

K. A. Jayaseelan

20. The Argument Structure of the Dative Construction

K. A. Jayaseelan

21. Syntactic Categories and Lexical Argument Structure

R. Amritavalli

22. Parts, Axial Parts and Next Parts in Kannada

R. Amritavalli

23. The Dative Case in the Malayalam Verb

K. A. Jayaseelan

24. Rich Results

R. Amritavalli

V | ANAPHORS AND PRONOUNS

25. Anaphorization in Dravidian

R. Amritavalli

26. Anaphors as Pronouns

K. A. Jayaseelan

27. Blocking Effects and the Syntax of Malayalam Taan

K. A. Jayaseelan

28. Deixis in Pronouns and Noun Phrases

K. A. Jayaseelan and M. Hariprasad

LANGUAGE INDEX

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