P. Madhavan
List of John Benjamins publications in which P. Madhavan is involved.
Articles
2007 Argument structure and aspect: The case of two imperfectives in Malayalam Argument Structure, Reuland, Eric J., Tanmoy Bhattacharya and Giorgos Spathas (eds.), pp. 105–120 | Article
We look at the two imperfective constructions in Malayalam and show how a rich v tier can account for differences between them. The -ukayaa^6 imperfective is actually a reduced (pseudo)cleft construction (following Mohanan and Mohanan’s 1999 analysis of aa^6 in non-equative constructions). The… read more
2007 The Cleft Question and the Question of Cleft Linguistic Theory and South Asian Languages: Essays in honour of K. A. Jayaseelan, Bayer, Josef, Tanmoy Bhattacharya and M.T. Hany Babu (eds.), pp. 41–51 | Article
This paper argues that in cleft constructions in Malayalam, the clefted constituent is (overtly) moved to the cleft focus, and that the ‘gap’ in the cleft clause is not created by movement of an empty operator as was proposed in Madhavan (1987) and some later studies. The cleft clause is shown to… read more