The researchers in the field of theoretical and theoretically inclined descriptive linguistics have for a long time felt a need for detailed and clearly presented linguistic treatments of various syntactic phenomena in South Asian languages.
Clause Structure in South Asian Languages:
• provides a comprehensive overview and covers major aspects of clause structure in a variety of South Asian languages;
• provides detailed analyses of several aspects of phrase structure of many prominent South Asian languages;
• gives theoretically up-to-date treatment of several important issues in South Asian syntax and semantics;
• contains papers by some of the most prominent linguists working on South Asian languages.