Pritha Chandra

List of John Benjamins publications in which Pritha Chandra 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 2016 Feature values and the expression of variation Biolinguistic Investigations on the Language Faculty, Di Sciullo, Anna Maria (ed.), pp. 103–124 | Article

This paper proposes that feature values emerge dynamically from the interaction between features and the internal/structural and language-external environments. Feature values constitute a second, flexible layer around a selected sub-set of innate features, and effect linguistic variation within… read more

Chandra, Pritha 2014 Middles in the syntax The Lexicon–Syntax Interface: Perspectives from South Asian languages, Chandra, Pritha and Richa Srishti (eds.), pp. 171–196 | Article

It is well-known that while some languages mark middles and passives similarly, some others mark them differently. Researchers opine that this difference may ensue from the loci of middle generation; they can be generated either in the lexicon or in the syntax. I present some problems with the… read more

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