Essays in Linguistics-II : Studies in Syntax Phonology and Morphology
Contents: Foreword. 1. Language education in Tripura. 2. Syntax of declaratives: English, KB, TB and SCB. 3. Yes-no questions in English, KB, TB and SCB. 4. Arguing against ternary foot: a case of Tripura Bangla. 5. Redundancy of template specification in the grammar for reduplication. Bibliography. Index.
India is linguists paradise as well as paradox. Thanks to the efforts at elitizing language studies in certain pockets of the country on the one hand, and the apathy of the society in general towards this discipline on the other, language studies in India today, are in a disheveled shape.
The present volume contains five essays. The first essay familiarizes the reader with the linguistic scenario in the primary and tertiary level of education in Tripura and the hurdles the vernacular medium students face. The next two essays are in descriptive syntax. They deal with certain syntactic properties of the four languages used in the academic circle Tripura: Kokborok, Tripura Bangla, standard colloquial Bangla and English. Each essay presents a comparative table of the linguistic phenomena in these languages to alert the children of the inter-language interferences a major source of hindrance for second language learning. Each such essay thus can be said to produce one module for the comparative grammar teaching method that the author intends to project in the long run.
Discussion becomes theoretical in the remaining two essays. The phonology paper argues against a ternary analysis of the ternary stress pattern in Tripura Bangla. The last essay following Kager (1999) demonstrates how template specification turns out redundant in OT analysis of reduplication. (jacket)
India is linguists paradise as well as paradox. Thanks to the efforts at elitizing language studies in certain pockets of the country on the one hand, and the apathy of the society in general towards this discipline on the other, language studies in India today, are in a disheveled shape.
The present volume contains five essays. The first essay familiarizes the reader with the linguistic scenario in the primary and tertiary level of education in Tripura and the hurdles the vernacular medium students face. The next two essays are in descriptive syntax. They deal with certain syntactic properties of the four languages used in the academic circle Tripura: Kokborok, Tripura Bangla, standard colloquial Bangla and English. Each essay presents a comparative table of the linguistic phenomena in these languages to alert the children of the inter-language interferences a major source of hindrance for second language learning. Each such essay thus can be said to produce one module for the comparative grammar teaching method that the author intends to project in the long run.
Discussion becomes theoretical in the remaining two essays. The phonology paper argues against a ternary analysis of the ternary stress pattern in Tripura Bangla. The last essay following Kager (1999) demonstrates how template specification turns out redundant in OT analysis of reduplication. (jacket)
