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Light Verb Raising, Empty Prepositions, and Zero Derivation

P. Madhavan, CIEFL, Hyderabad

The paper notes the absence of certain kinds of zero derivations in Malayalam and hypothesizes that this follows from the lack of zero [-N] categories. This approach predicts that Malayalam will have no instances of dative shift in double object constructions, which is indeed the case.



Rajesh Bhatt
Mon Mar 30 11:24:59 EST 1998