Perspectives on the Architecture and Acquisition of Syntax ― Essays in Honor of R. Amritavalli

This festschrift volume brings together important contributions by expert syntacticians across the globe on tense and finiteness, adjectives, dative and ergative case, acquisition of case, and other topics both within the domain of Dravidian linguistics and in the broader theoretical understanding of cross-linguistic data. Professor R. Amritavalli, a renowned linguist, has spent over three decades in the fields of syntax and syntactic acquisition, making important and landmark contributions in these areas, and this book is a recognition of her work. The contributors cover these themes in the context of English, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Hindi-Urdu, Bangla, Dravidian languages, and understudied languages like Huave. The analyses presented here have major implications for current theories of syntax and semantics, first and second language acquisition, language typology and historical linguistics, and will be a valuable resource for students, researchers and teachers.

Gautam Sengupta is Professor of Applied Linguistics, Centre for Applied Linguistics & Translation Studies, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India

Shruti Sircar is Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics & Contemporary English, The English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad, India

Madhavi Gayathri Raman is Assistant Professor, Department of Materials, Testing and Evaluation, The English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad, India