Proceedings of the Conference on Participant Roles: South Asia and Adjacent Areas
By Arlene R.K. Zide, David Magier, and Eric Schiller (eds.)
The papers include analyses of participant roles not only in Indo-Aryan and Dravidian languages, but also in other languages and languages families such as Dardic, Munda, Nuristani, Khmer, Tibetan, Burmese and Burushaski.
This collection contains papers from an ancillary meeting to the Chicago Linguistics Society Regional meeting, held at the University of Chicago on April 25, 1984. It includes the following papers:
- "Commentary: Two Problems of Convergence" -- Colin P.Masica
- "Comments" -- Bill J. Darden
- "Toward a Semantics of the Burushaski Verb" -- Elena Bashir
- "Morphological Criteria for Distinguishing Categories of Transitivity in Shina" -- Ruth Schmidt
- "Locality and Nominal Relationships in Kamviri" -- Richard Strand
- "Categories of Non-Volitional Actor in Lhasa Tibetan" -- Scott DeLancey
- "Ergativity and the Nominal-Verbal Cycle: Internal Syntactic Reconstruction in Burmese" -- F. K. Lehman
- "Forward into the Past: A Look at Khmer Morphology" -- Eric Schiller
- "Notes Mostly Historical on Some Participant Roles in Some Munda Languages" -- Norman H. Zide
- "Agency Modulation and Other Facets of Participant Roles in Tamil" --Vijayarani Jotimuttu Fedson
- "Constituent Roles and Clause Union in Nepali" -- William D.Wallace
- "Case and Transitivity in Marwari" -- David Magier
- "Experiencers and Patients As Subjects in Hindi-Urdu" -- Alice Davison
- "Subjecthood as a Marker of Affected Entity Status in Several Languages"-- Miriam Klaiman
- "Who's Doing What to Whom or Is Someone Always Doing Something: Participant Roles and the Semantics of Causatives" -- Arlene R.K. Zide
- "The Locus of Case: Semantics of Participant Roles" -- Stanley Starosta
- "Transitivity as a Gradient Feature: Evidence from Indo-Aryan, Especially Sanskrit and Hindi" -- Hans Heinrich Hock
- "Coexistent Analyses and Participant Roles in Indo-Aryan" -- Peter Hook
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