Emily Manetta

List of John Benjamins publications in which Emily Manetta is involved.

Title

Peripheries in Kashmiri and Hindi-Urdu: The syntax of discourse-driven movement

Emily Manetta

This research monograph is an investigation of wh-movement and wh-expletive constructions in the Indic languages Kashmiri and Hindi-Urdu. It advances a novel theory of the periphery, or the clausal positions that mediate A-bar movement. In particular, a detailed study of wh-expletives and… read more

[Language Faculty and Beyond, 4] 2011. ix, 160 pp.

Article

Manetta, Emily 2014 Markedness and syncretism in Kashmiri differential argument encoding The Lexicon–Syntax Interface: Perspectives from South Asian languages, Chandra, Pritha and Richa Srishti (eds.), pp. 245–270 | Article

The pronominal clitic system in Kashmiri takes the form of set of verbal suffixes conditioned by the case of the coreferent DP. This system interacts in unexpected ways with differential argument encoding (DAE) in Kashmiri, in which the case-marking of objects in non-perfective aspects is dependent… read more