Advances in South Asian Linguistics

South Asian linguistics is a growing and rapidly advancing field, where sophisticated linguistic analysis of well-studied languages sits alongside ongoing description and initial linguistic study of previously undescribed languages. The rich diversity of the South Asian linguistic area offers up a constant source of new linguistic data, including new challenges to existing theoretical linguistic analyses which have been developed on the basis of typologically very different European languages. This volume consists of a select set of research papers on South Asian linguistics, several of which were presented at the 35th South Asian Languages Analysis in Paris, in October 2019. These papers, written by leading scholars in South Asian linguistics, attest a diverse range of theoretical perspectives and analytical frameworks, while focusing on important issues in South Asian linguistics, showcasing the breadth of research currently being undertaken in the field. The contributions to the volume range from syntax, semantics and phonology to language description and areal typology, and cover a wide range of languages, from well-studied Indo-Aryan languages such as Hindi and Bangla, through the Dravidian language Tamil to the understudied Tibeto-Burman language Baram. Contents: Rajamathangi S.: Stripping in Tamil: The PF-deletion approach - Omkar N. Koul & Peter Edwin Hook: The noun phrase accessibility hierarchy and participial noun-modifying constructions in Hindi-Urdu, Kashmiri and Panjabi - Ghanshyam Sharma: What Hindi participles are made of? - Ali H. Birahimani, John J. Lowe: The stative primary aspect in Siraiki - Liudmila V. Khokhlova: Metaphorical shifts in Western New Indo-Aryan Languages - Boris Zakharin: On certain semantic-grammatical correspondences between the Old Indo-Aryan (OIA) and Russian - Preeti Kumari: Honorificity feature: a reanalysis of number in Bangla and Maithili - Tanima Bagchi & Rajesh Kumar: Honorification as a Directional Stabilizer in the Santal Community - Dinesh Ramoo: Feature Geometry in Classical Tamil: A Case for New Perspectives on an Old Problem - Devina Krishna: Lexical tones in Western Indo-Aryan languages - Andrea Drocco: Braj-bhāṣā and the languages of Eastern Rajasthan. In search of a history of mutual relationship - Anu Pandey: Morphophonology of Interrogative Pronouns in Kanauji and Hindi - Niladri Sekhar Dash: The Morphodynamics in Formation of Personal Pronominal Forms in the Mohanpurī Dialect Spoken across Bengal-Odisha Border - Romita Devi Ahanthem & Martin Everaert: The Status of the Baram Language in Mailung Village of Nepal - Sunil K. Bhatt: Punjabi: One Language, Two Nations, Three Religions - Marcel Courthiade: Is double (or manifold) language areal belonging conceivable for a language?