03592nam a22004935i 4500001001800000003000900018005001700027007001500044008004100059020003700100024003500137050001300172072001600185072002300201072001500224100008100239245009100320250001800411264007900429300004500508336002600553337002600579338003600605347002400641505033100665520157300996650005302569650001702622650003102639650003102670650001902701650004602720650004202766650003102808710003402839773002602873776003602899776003602935776003602971856004603007912001403053912001403067999001703081978-3-031-75243-8DE-He21320251030114948.0cr nn 008mamaa250301s2024    sz |    s    |||| 0|eng d  a97830317524389978-3-031-75243-87 a10.1007/978-3-031-75243-82doi 4aP291-298 7aCFK2bicssc 7aLAN0090602bisacsh 7aCFK2thema1 aSaha, Atanu.eauthor.4aut4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut99099010aReciprocal Constructions in Meitei and Nyishih[electronic resource] /cby Atanu Saha.  a1st ed. 2024. 1aCham :bSpringer Nature Switzerland :bImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,c2024.  aXIII, 159 p. 33 illus.bonline resource.  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  atext filebPDF2rda0 aChapter 1: Typology of Verbal Reciprocals: An Overview -- Chapter 2: Generative Approaches to the Syntax and Semantics of the Reciprocal Constructions -- Chapter 3: Meiteilon and Nyishi Reciprocals in Comparison -- Chapter 4: Analyzing the Syntax and Semantics of the Meiteilon and Nyishi Reciprocal -- Chapter 5: Conclusions.  aThis book investigates three interesting questions arising from the intriguing cross-linguistic perspective of Meiteilon and Nyishi, two Tibeto-Burman languages respectively spoken in the states of Manipur and Arunachal Pradesh in India. The first question relates to developing a model for the syntax and semantics of these verbal reciprocal languages. Secondly, the book attempts to provide an account of the surface variations between the languages using this model. The book also tries to build an account for the co-occurrences of the nominal and verbal reciprocals in languages like Meiteilon and Nyishi. Both languages use a verbal strategy for default reciprocalization and both the languages show discontinuous reciprocity. The author argues that if the reciprocal marker consists of one suffix (as in the case of Meiteilon), it may express several other functions, but if the reciprocal marker composes of more than one suffix (as in Nyishi), it does not show polysemy. Both languages can reciprocalize unaccusative and unergative verbs, and in both the languages, overt distributive nominal reciprocal markers show strong reciprocity. This book will be of interest to syntacticians and typologists working in the domain of universal grammar, as well as computational linguists seeking empirical data on endangered and underrepresented languages. Atanu Saha is an Assistant Professor in the School of Languages and Linguistics at Jadavpur University, India. His doctoral research focused on reciprocal constructions within the Meiteilon and Nyishi languages. 0aGrammar, Comparative and generalxSyntax.973635 0aLinguistics. 0aOriental languages.990991 0aComputational linguistics.14aSyntax.97363824aTheoretical Linguistics / Grammar.97364024aOriental or Semitic Languages.99099224aComputational Linguistics.2 aSpringerLink (Online service)0 tSpringer Nature eBook08iPrinted edition:z978303175242108iPrinted edition:z978303175244508iPrinted edition:z978303175245240uhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-75243-8  aZDB-2-SLS  aZDB-2-SXS  c66811d66811