Richa Srishti

List of John Benjamins publications in which Richa Srishti is involved.

Title

The Lexicon–Syntax Interface: Perspectives from South Asian languages

Edited by Pritha Chandra and Richa Srishti

The present collection offers fresh perspectives on the lexicon-syntax interface, drawing on novel data from South Asian languages like Bangla, Hindi-Urdu, Kashmiri, Kannada, Malayalam, Manipuri, Punjabi, and Telugu. It covers different phenomena like adjectives, nominal phrases, ditransitives,… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 209] 2014. vii, 275 pp.

Articles

Chandra, Pritha and Richa Srishti 2014 The lexicon-syntax interface: Some issues The Lexicon–Syntax Interface: Perspectives from South Asian languages, Chandra, Pritha and Richa Srishti (eds.), pp. 1–24 | Article

Srishti, Richa 2014 Not so high: The case of causee in South Asian Languages (Hindi, Kashmiri, Punjabi & Manipuri) The Lexicon–Syntax Interface: Perspectives from South Asian languages, Chandra, Pritha and Richa Srishti (eds.), pp. 197–216 | Article

The status of the causee argument in Hindi and other South Asian Languages has been contentious in recent literature as it takes instrumental/ablatice Case marker and hence, seems comparable to an instrumental/ablative adjunct (-se in Hindi, athi in Kashmiri, tõ: in Punjabi, and -n∂ in Manipuri).… read more

Srishti, Richa and Shahid Bhat 2014 Is Kashmiri passive really a passive? The Lexicon–Syntax Interface: Perspectives from South Asian languages, Chandra, Pritha and Richa Srishti (eds.), pp. 149–170 | Article

The present paper explores passives in Kashmiri, a Northwestern Dardic language of the Indo-Aryan family. Though Kashmiri has some special features like V-2 phenomenon, pronominal clitics etc. it has an analytic passive construction like its Indo-Aryan counterparts. The internal argument surfaces… read more