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Language Engineering Conference (LEC'02)
Syntactic Alternations of Hindi Verbs with Reference to the Morphological Paradigm
Hyderabad, India
December 13-December 15
ISBN: 0-7695-1885-0
Debasri Chakrabarti, Indian Institute of Technology
Pushpak Bhattacharyya, Indian Institute of Technology
The aim of this paper is to show the alternation pattern of verbs in Hindi. The work is guided by Beth Levin?s work on English verb classes and alternations where English verbs are classified semantically according to their argument structure [1]. There is a strong belief that the semantic nature of verbs is largely dependent on its argument structure. The nature of the Hindi verbs shows that along with the argument structure, attention should also be paid to the phonological changes which influence the morphological paradigms. Preliminary attempts have been made to class the simple verbs of Hindi into different morphological paradigms along with the phonological changes. At present, the work is limited only to the syntactic structure. Semantic characteristics have not been dealt with. Focus is mainly given on nominal, transitive-causative, and intransitive-causative variants.
Index Terms:
Syntactic Alternation, Morphological Paradigm, Semantic Category
Citation:
Debasri Chakrabarti, Pushpak Bhattacharyya, "Syntactic Alternations of Hindi Verbs with Reference to the Morphological Paradigm," lec, pp.77, Language Engineering Conference (LEC'02), 2002
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