Passives in South Asian Languages

Haspelmath (2010) debates whether universal (descriptive) categories of the types that generativists (cf. Newmeyer, 2007) envisage are real and needed for cross-linguistic studies. Instead every language has its own unique set of categories. We raise doubt on this “categorial particularism” position...

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Main Authors: Pritha CHANDRA, Anindita SAHOOA
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Znanstvena založba Filozofske fakultete Univerze v Ljubljani (Ljubljana University Press, Faculty of Arts) 2013-04-01
Series:Acta Linguistica Asiatica
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Online Access:https://revije.ff.uni-lj.si/ala/article/view/188