Studies in South Asian Linguistics: Sinhala and Other South Asian Languages
This volume collects twenty-nine published and unpublished papers by the linguist James Gair, considered the foremost western scholar of the Sri Lankan languages Sinhala and Jaffna Tamil. Ranging over thirty years, his work also considers issues in a variety of Indian languages, including Hindi, Marathi, Tamil, Malayalam, and Bengali. The collection reflects the wide range of Gair's interests, from morpho-syntactic questions to questions regarding historical and areal linguistics, especially...
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This volume collects twenty-nine published and unpublished papers by the linguist James Gair, considered the foremost western scholar of the Sri Lankan languages Sinhala and Jaffna Tamil. Ranging over thirty years, his work also considers issues in a variety of Indian languages, including Hindi, Marathi, Tamil, Malayalam, and Bengali. The collection reflects the wide range of Gair's interests, from morpho-syntactic questions to questions regarding historical and areal linguistics, especially language contact and diglossia, and extending to language acquisition. By collecting these papers and making them newly accessible, this volume will provide an important resource not only for scholars of these languages but for linguists interested in the theoretical issues Gair explores.
A Note on Transcription and TerminologyIntroductionIBackground and Description of Basic Categories1Sinhala, an Indo-Aryan Isolate (1982)12Colloquial Sinhala Inflectional Categories and Parts of Speech (1967)133Action Involvement Categories in Colloquial Sinhala (1971)25IISyntax: Configuration, Order, and Grammatical Function4About Colloquial Sinhalese Clause Structures (1970)475Nonconfigurationality, Movement, and Sinhala Focus (1983)506Subjects, Case, and INFL in Sinhala (1991)657Sinhala Nonverbal Sentences and Argument Structure (with John Paolillo) (1989)87IIIDeixis, Anaphora, and Agreement8Discourse Deixis and Situational Deixis in Sinhala (1991)1119Pronouns, Reflexives, and Antianaphora in Sinhala (with W. S. Karunatillake) (1990)12610On Distinguishing AGR from agr: Evidence from South Asia (with Kashi Wali) (1988)140IVChange, Grammaticization, and Linguistic Area11Sinhala Focused Sentences: Naturalization of a Calque (1985)15312Some Aspects of the Jaffna Tamil Verbal System (with S. Suseendirarajah) (1981)17013Selections from the Review of Southworth and Apte (1978)18214How Dravidianized Was Sinhala Phonology? Some Conclusions and Cautions (1985)18515Selections from "The Verb in Sinhala, with Some Preliminary Remarks on Dravidianization" (1976)200VDiglossia16Sinhalese Diglossia (1968)21317Sinhala Diglossia Revisited, or, Diglossia Dies Hard (1985)22418Syntactic Theory, AGR, and Sinhala Diglossia (1995)237VIThe Development of Syntax19Acquisition of Null Subjects and Control in Some Sinhala Adverbial Clauses (1989)27120A Parameter-Setting Paradox: Children's Acquisition of Hindi Anaphora in jab Clauses (1995)286Notes305Bibliography345Index361