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- Title
The Structure of Spatial Relators in Malayalam.
- Authors
Sreedevi, P.
- Abstract
This paper is an enquiry into the syntax and semantics of the putative spatial post- position/relator nouns in Malayalam. Following the work of Svenonius (2004, 2006b), Amirtavalli (2007), I would like to argue that the spatial P in Malayalam has a layered functional structure above the DP. I would also demonstrate using the principle of head to head movement and fusion analysis by Siddiqui (2009) that the putative post-positions in Malayalam like munn-il 'front', thaazhe 'down', veLiyil 'out' etc., are derived in the syntactic structure via the incorporation of the locative case -ilinto category- neutral roots like -mun, - pin etc., that denote axial parts. I would also like to explain the ambiguity between the part and projective sense of these axial "post-positions" is caused by the homonymy of locative case -il that can head the functional projection PLACEloc P or PlaceP, which can only be differentiated via secondary exponent. That is, on the basis of what case the complement DP is assigned.
- Subjects
MALAYALAM language; NOUNS; SYNTAX (Grammar); SEMANTICS; HOMONYMS; LOCATIVE constructions (Grammar)
- Publication
Language in India, 2017, Vol 17, Issue 4, p216
- ISSN
1930-2940
- Publication type
Article