Bhuvana Narasimhan
List of John Benjamins publications in which Bhuvana Narasimhan is
involved.
Title
Events of Putting and Taking: A crosslinguistic perspective
Edited by Anetta Kopecka and Bhuvana Narasimhan
Events of putting things in places, and removing them from places, are fundamental activities of human experience. But do speakers of different languages construe such events in the same way when describing them? This volume investigates placement and removal event descriptions from 18 areally,… read moreArticles
Narasimhan, Bhuvana 2013
Ergative case-marking in Hindi child-caregiver speech The Acquisition of Ergativity, Bavin, Edith L. and Sabine Stoll (eds.), pp. 209–238 | Article In the split-ergative pattern of case-marking in Hindi, the A-role argument typically receives ergative marking with verbs that have perfective inflection. Longitudinal data from three children acquiring Hindi (ranging in age between 1;5–3;2) and their caregivers reveal that ergative case-marking… read more Narasimhan, Bhuvana 2012
Putting and Taking in Tamil and Hindi Events of Putting and Taking: A crosslinguistic perspective, Kopecka, Anetta and Bhuvana Narasimhan (eds.), pp. 201–230 | Article Many languages have general or “light” verbs used by speakers to describe a wide range of situations owing to their relatively schematic meanings, e.g., the English verb do that can be used to describe many different kinds of actions, or the verb put that labels a range of types of placement of… read more Narasimhan, Bhuvana, Anetta Kopecka, Melissa F. Bowerman, Marianne Gullberg and Asifa Majid 2012
Putting and taking events: A crosslinguistic perspective Events of Putting and Taking: A crosslinguistic perspective, Kopecka, Anetta and Bhuvana Narasimhan (eds.), pp. 1–18 | Article