Argument Structure in Hindi Book

	Preface: May 1990
	Abbreviations
1	Introduction	1
1.1	The Organization of Lexical Information	1
1.2	The Specification of Predictable Information	2
1.3	Co-presence of Information	3
1.4	An Outline of the Work	4
2	An Introduction to Hindi Syntax	5
2.1	Nominals	6
2.2	Verbals	7
2.3	Word Order	11
3	The Conceptual Framework	15
3.1	The Organization of Information	15
3.2	Semantic Structure	18
3.3	Argument Structure	22
3.4	Grammatical Function Structure	41
3.5	Grammatical Category Structure	47
3.6	Co-presence of the Levels of Structure	50
4	The Case System	55
4.1	The Case Marking System	59
4.2	Case Features: Their Syntactic and Semantic Substance	64
4.3	The Syntax of Direct Case in Hindi	68
4.4	Case Preservation: Direct and Indirect Case	91
5	Verb Agreement and Word Order	102
5.1	Verb Agreement: The Simple Facts	102
5.2	Agreement and an Incorporation Construction	106
6	Grammatical Subjecthood	120
6.1	Semantic and Coding Properties of Subjects	120
6.2	Behavioral Properties of Subjects	122
6.3	Grammatical Subjecthood as Prominence	136
7	Indirect Case on Subjects	139
7.1	Dative Subjects	141
7.2	Instrumental Subjects	151
7.3	Locative Subjects	164
7.4	Genitive Subjects	177
7.5	Accusative Logical Subjects	183
7.6	Theoretical Consequences	191
8	Complex Predicates	197
8.2	The Category Structure of Complex Predicates	201
8.3	Predicatehood in Complex Predicates	212
8.4	The Argumenthood of the Nominal Host	225
8.5	Summary: Structural Mismatches	232
8.6	The Notion "Lexical"	234
9	Conclusion	237
9.1	Levels of Structure	237
9.2	Co-presence of the Levels	243
	References	246
	Index	261