The Syntax of Non-verbal predication
Date9th May 2022
Time03:00 PM
Venue Google-meet
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This study presents an account of predication, especially in the domain of non-verbal predication in select Dravidian languages, i.e. Telugu and Kuʔi, which are spoken majorly in Andhra Pradesh. This research has three primary objectives: i) to identify and describe the types/kinds of non-verbal predication in both Telugu and Kuʔi, ii) to provide a theoretical analysis of the non-verbal predication through the Minimalist Lens (Chomsky, 1995; 2000), and iii) to offer a crosslinguistic explanation for variations that get encoded through non-verbal predication. The existing studies on the syntactic representation of the non-verbal predication (Carnie, 1995; Heggie, 1988; Moro, 1997; Heycock, 1992) seem inadequate to accommodate the wide variations encountered in such constructions, especially in Dravidian languages. Therefore, through this study, we are going to examine the description of the non-verbal predicates in both Telugu and Kuʔi. Further, we are proposing a novel syntactic representation of these constructions which can account for the two intra-Dravidian languages and can provide an explanation for the language variation which exists between the languages.
Speakers
Mr. Gunti Prem Sagar (HS19D021) Ph.D Research Scholar, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences,
Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Madras - 600 036.