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South Asia is home to a large number of languages and dialects. Although linguists working on this region have made significant contributions to our understanding of language, society, and language in society on a global scale, there is as yet no recognized international forum for the exchange of ideas amongst linguists working on South Asia. The Annual Review of South Asian Languages and Linguistics is designed to be just that forum. It brings together empirical and theoretical research and serves as a testing ground for the articulation of new ideas and approaches which may be grounded in a study of South Asian languages but which have universal applicability.
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Annual Review of South Asian Languages and Linguistics 2010 Trends in Linguistics Studies and Monographs 238 Editor Volker Gast Advisory Editors Walter Bisang Hans Henrich Hock (main editor for this volume) Matthias Schlesewsky Niina Zhang Founding Editor Werner Winter De Gruyter Mouton Annual Review of South Asian Languages and Linguistics 2010 edited by Rajendra Singh De Gruyter Mouton ISBN 978-3-11-025483-9 e-ISBN 978-3-11-025497-6 ISSN 1861-4302 Bibliographic information published by the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek The Deutsche Nationalbibliothek lists this publication in the Deutsche Nationalbibliografie; detailed bibliographic data are available in the Internet at http://dnb.d-nb.de. ” 2010 Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG, Berlin/New York Printing: Hubert & Co. GmbH & Co. KG, Göttingen ⬁ Printed on acid-free paper Printed in Germany. www.degruyter.com Contents Editorial Preface.........................................................................................vii General Contributions On the Origin of Affixal Polysemy/Homonymy in Bengali.........................3 Shishir Bhattacharja Two Types of NPIs in Hindi with One Licensing Condition.....................19 Rajesh Kumar Wh-Phenomena in Sinhala..........................................................................49 Chandrika Maliyagoda Diverging Pathways: The Current Status of Grammaticalization of Hindi Verbs.............................................................................................75 Shakthi Poornima and Robert Painter Special Contribution: Hindi Pragmatics On Hindi Conditionals .............................................................................107 Ghanshyam Sharma Regional Reports Issues in the Description of Bangla ..........................................................137 Probal Dasgupta Europe.......................................................................................................143 John Peterson vi Contents Reviews R. K. Agnihotri and H. K. Dewan (Eds.) Knowledge, Language and Learning ...................................................................................................167 by Anjani K. Sinha Shreesh Chaudhary Foreigners & Foreign Languages in India: A Sociolinguistic History..........................................................................175 by Rajend Mesthrie Dialogue The Standard, (Non-) Rhoticity and Rhythm in Indian English: A Response to Lange ...............................................................................183 by Pingali Sailaja Appendices Announcements: The Gyandeep Prize/Housekeeping.............................189 Notes on Contributors...............................................................................191 Editorial Preface Annual Review of South Asian Languages and Linguistics (ARSALL) is devoted to bringing out what is currently being explored in South Asian linguistics and in the study of South Asian languages in general. South Asia is home to a wide variety of languages, structurally and typologically quite diverse, and has o