Bhuvana Narasimhan

List of John Benjamins publications in which Bhuvana Narasimhan is involved.

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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 more
[Typological Studies in Language, 100] 2012. xv, 371 pp.

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Narasimhan, Bhuvana 2013 Ergative case-marking in Hindi child-caregiver speechThe 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
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Narasimhan, Bhuvana 2012 Putting and Taking in Tamil and HindiEvents 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
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Narasimhan, Bhuvana, Anetta Kopecka, Melissa F. Bowerman, Marianne Gullberg and Asifa Majid 2012 Putting and taking events: A crosslinguistic perspectiveEvents of Putting and Taking: A crosslinguistic perspective, Kopecka, Anetta and Bhuvana Narasimhan (eds.), pp. 1–18 | Article
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