Alice Davison
List of John Benjamins publications in which Alice Davison is involved.
2009 Adjunction, features and locality in Sanskrit and Hindi/Urdu correlatives Correlatives Cross-Linguistically, Lipták, Anikó (ed.), pp. 223–262 | Article
2007 Word Order, Parameters, and the Extended COMP Projection Linguistic Theory and South Asian Languages: Essays in honour of K. A. Jayaseelan, Bayer, Josef, Tanmoy Bhattacharya and M.T. Hany Babu (eds.), pp. 175–198 | Article
The structure of finite CP shows some unexpected syntactic variation in the marking of finite subordinate clauses in the Indic languages, which otherwise are strongly head-final. Languages with relative pronouns also have initial complementizers and conjunctions. Languages with final yes/no… read more
2004 7. Non-nominative subjects in Hindi — Urdu VP structure and case parameters Non-nominative Subjects: Volume 1, Bhaskararao, Peri and Karumuri V. Subbarao (eds.), pp. 141–168 | Chapter
1999 Ergativity: Functional and formal issues [Discussion of the papers on ergativity] Functionalism and Formalism in Linguistics: Volume I: General papers, Darnell, Michael, Edith A. Moravcsik, Michael Noonan, Frederick J. Newmeyer and Kathleen Wheatley (eds.), pp. 177–210 | Article
1981 Review of Gabriele Stein, Studies in the function of the passive Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag Studies in Language 5:3, pp. 438–447 | Article