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Viau, Joshua; Lidz, Jeffrey – Language, 2011
In this article we offer up a particular linguistic phenomenon, quantifier-variable binding in Kannada ditransitives, as a proving ground upon which competing claims about learnability can be evaluated with respect to the relative abstractness of children's grammatical knowledge. We first identify one aspect of syntactic representation that…
Descriptors: Semantics, Verbs, Grammar, Language Acquisition

McAlpin, David W. – Language, 1974
Descriptors: Consonants, Contrastive Linguistics, Dravidian Languages, Phonology

Nadkarni, Mangesh V. – Language, 1975
The syntax of the relative clause in the Saraswat Brahmin dialect of Konkani, an Indo-Aryan language, has been Dravidianized because of the impact of the Dravidian Kannada language, operating through bilingual speakers. The Konkani-Kannada bilingual situation is described and an explanatory account of the syntactic change is given. (Author/CLK)
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Contrastive Linguistics, Dialect Studies, Dravidian Languages