Open AccessPronominalisation in South Asian Languages: of People and their Actions
Author(s) -
Tanmoy Bhattacharya
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
nepalese linguistics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 0259-1006
DOI - 10.3126/nl.v33i1.41102
Subject(s) - phenomenon , linguistics , similarity (geometry) , computer science , genealogy , history , artificial intelligence , philosophy , epistemology , image (mathematics)
By looking at agreement in Indo-Aryan (IA), and Munda languages, it is suggested that the apparent similarity of a certain phenomenon across unrelated languages is not a sufficient condition for contact induced change. In particular, I will investigate the phenomenon of “multiple agreement” in detail in Munda languages to show that it is not the same as agreement in contiguous IA languages.