The Tamil Auxiliary Verb System (Routledge Studies in Asian Linguistics) - Softcover

Book 8 of 8: Routledge Studies in Asian Linguistics

Steever, Sanford B.

 
9781138996731: The Tamil Auxiliary Verb System (Routledge Studies in Asian Linguistics)
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ISBN 10: 1138996734 ISBN 13: 9781138996731
Publisher: Routledge, 2016

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

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.

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2016
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1138996734
ISBN 13 
9781138996731
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
336

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