Rajesh Bhatt
Biographic Data
| ID | 3851348 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rajesh Bhatt |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rajesh |
| FAMILY NAME | Bhatt |
| SIGNATURE | BHATT R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Massachusetts Amherst |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3059-2249 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 169 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Degrees of animacy and telicity in Hindi intransitives: A corpus study
Intransitives are known to fall into two classes, unergatives and unac-cusatives, associated with a wide range of diverging properties. It has long been argued that the semantics of a given verb determines whether it will preferentially exhibit unergative or unaccusative behavior. In particular, agentive semantics has been associated with unergativity, telic semantics with unaccusativity. In this paper, we test this claim empirically using corpus…
Copular agreement in Hindi-Urdu
In this paper, we present an analysis of Copular Agreement in Hindi-Urdu. We examine assumed identity copula structures (e.g., For today, I am him.), where we show that the broad characterization of the Hindi-Urdu agreement generalization – ‘agree with the highest unmarked DP’ – is insufficient: a structurally lower unmarked nominal has a demonstrable impact on the availability of agreement with a higher unmarked nominal. This interference arises…
The common core of relativization in Georgian
Restructuring and the scope of negation in Hindi-Urdu
In Hindi-Urdu, a negation which seems to be inside an infinitival complement can have effects typical of a matrix negation, e.g., NPI licensing in the matrix. We show that this exceptional behavior of negation is only possible with restructuring infinitives. We argue that the infinitival V moves out of the restructuring infinitive and into the matrix, and that it forms a cluster with the main verb. This movement makes the negative marker appear t…
Polar question particles: Hindi-Urdu kya
Conditionals
We provide a survey of major issues in the syntax of conditionals, advancing the view that if ‐clauses are free relatives of possible worlds. Similarly to the more familiar instances of free relatives of individuals, (i) conditional clauses likely involve clause‐internal operator‐movement to [SpecCP]; (ii) they receive the interpretation of definite descriptions; and (iii) they may participate in correlative structures as happens in the subcase o…
Long‐Distance Agreement
Long‐distance agreement (LDA) refers to agreement between a functional head in the extended projection of one lexical head with an argument of another lexical head. LDA is found in a variety of languages, including Indo‐Aryan (Hindi/Urdu, Kashmiri, Kutchi), Basque, Tsez, Chukotko‐Kamchatkan, and native North American languages (Innu‐aimûn, Passamaquoddy). All instances of LDA described in the literature share a number of properties. First, LDA us…
Implicit Arguments
This chapter surveys the environments which have been claimed to involve implicit arguments and raises questions concerning the formal status of these entities. The conclusion is that implicit arguments do not form a unified class, varying on features such as the ability to bind and to control, and their quantificational force. The chapter focuses on the diagnostics that are used to motivate and identify implicit arguments and how one might disti…
Interpreting verb clusters
Coordination and finiteness in Malayalam: A commentary on Jayaseelan (2013)
Complete and defective agreement in Kutchi
We describe and analyze the previously undocumented verbal agreement system of Kutchi (Indo-Aryan). We argue that Kutchi instantiates a novel type of split ergativity. First, it exhibits an aspect split in that agreement in non-perfective clauses behaves on a par with agreement in intransitive perfective clauses, in stark contrast to transitive perfective clauses. A striking property of Kutchi is that these asymmetries manifest themselves in the …
Locating agreement in grammar: An argument from agreement in conjunctions
Reduced and unreduced phrasal comparatives
Harmonic Grammar with linear programming: From linear systems to linguistic typology
Harmonic Grammar is a model of linguistic constraint interaction in which well-formedness is calculated in terms of the sum of weighted constraint violations. We show how linear programming algorithms can be used to determine whether there is a weighting for a set of constraints that fits a set of linguistic data. The associated software package OT-Help provides a practical tool for studying large and complex linguistic systems in the Harmonic Gr…
Two locations for negation: Evidence from Kashmiri
Kashmiri has two structural positions for negation: a high position associated with focus and a low position associated with tense. In verb second environments, the difference between these two positions is neutralized on the surface and irrespective of the location where negation is generated, it appears as a suffix on the finite verb. But in non-verb second environments such as conditionals and correlatives the two negations can be teased apart…
Expressives and Identity Conditions
April 01 2009 Expressives and Identity Conditions Christopher Potts, Christopher Potts Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Ash Asudeh, Ash Asudeh Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Seth Cable, Seth Cable Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Yurie Hara, Yurie Hara Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Eric McCready, Eric McCrea…
Rightward Scrambling as Rightward Remnant Movement
Mahajan (1997) and Simpson and Bhattacharya (2003) analyze Indo-Aryan languages such as Hindi-Urdu and Bangla as SVO. We argue against this position, drawing on rightward scrambling in Hindi-Urdu to make this point. We propose an account of the phenomenon in terms of rightward remnant-VP movement. This account differs from proposals that posit rightward movement of individual arguments as well as from the antisymmetric proposals mentioned above, …
Long Distance Agreement in Hindi-Urdu
Semilinearity Is a Syntactic Invariant: A Reply to Michaelis and Kracht 1997
On the basis of data from Old Georgian (Boeder 1995), Michaelis and Kracht (1997) argue against treating semilinearity as a syntactic invariant. They claim that Suffixaufnahme in Old Georgian noun phrases is responsible for making Old Georgian a non-semilinear-growth language. We show that Michaelis and Kracht (a) draw an incorrect inference from the data presented in Boeder 1995, and (b) do not take into account certain processes of morphologica…
Late Merger of Degree Clauses
In this article, we propose that degree heads and degree clauses form a constituent not at the point where the degree head is merged, but after QR of the degree head and countercyclic merger of the degree clause. We derive a generalization originally outlined in Williams 1974 that the scope of the comparative degree quantifier is exactly as high as the site of attachment of the degree clause. This generalization is shown to follow from the deriva…
Locality in Correlatives
The Raising Analysis of Relative Clauses: Evidence from Adjectival Modification
The Raising Analysis of Relative Clauses: Evidence from Adjectival Modification
Late Merger of Degree Clauses
In this article, we propose that degree heads and degree clauses form a constituent not at the point where the degree head is merged, but after QR of the degree head and countercyclic merger of the degree clause. We derive a generalization originally outlined in Williams 1974 that the scope of the comparative degree quantifier is exactly as high as the site of attachment of the degree clause. This generalization is shown to follow from the deriva…
Locating agreement in grammar: An argument from agreement in conjunctions
Rightward Scrambling as Rightward Remnant Movement
Mahajan (1997) and Simpson and Bhattacharya (2003) analyze Indo-Aryan languages such as Hindi-Urdu and Bangla as SVO. We argue against this position, drawing on rightward scrambling in Hindi-Urdu to make this point. We propose an account of the phenomenon in terms of rightward remnant-VP movement. This account differs from proposals that posit rightward movement of individual arguments as well as from the antisymmetric proposals mentioned above, …
Reduced and unreduced phrasal comparatives
Expressives and Identity Conditions
April 01 2009 Expressives and Identity Conditions Christopher Potts, Christopher Potts Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Ash Asudeh, Ash Asudeh Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Seth Cable, Seth Cable Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Yurie Hara, Yurie Hara Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Eric McCready, Eric McCrea…
Locality in Correlatives
Interpreting verb clusters
Polar question particles: Hindi-Urdu kya
The Raising Analysis of Relative Clauses: Evidence from Adjectival Modification
Locality in Correlatives
Semilinearity Is a Syntactic Invariant: A Reply to Michaelis and Kracht 1997
On the basis of data from Old Georgian (Boeder 1995), Michaelis and Kracht (1997) argue against treating semilinearity as a syntactic invariant. They claim that Suffixaufnahme in Old Georgian noun phrases is responsible for making Old Georgian a non-semilinear-growth language. We show that Michaelis and Kracht (a) draw an incorrect inference from the data presented in Boeder 1995, and (b) do not take into account certain processes of morphologica…
Late Merger of Degree Clauses
In this article, we propose that degree heads and degree clauses form a constituent not at the point where the degree head is merged, but after QR of the degree head and countercyclic merger of the degree clause. We derive a generalization originally outlined in Williams 1974 that the scope of the comparative degree quantifier is exactly as high as the site of attachment of the degree clause. This generalization is shown to follow from the deriva…
Long Distance Agreement in Hindi-Urdu
Rightward Scrambling as Rightward Remnant Movement
Mahajan (1997) and Simpson and Bhattacharya (2003) analyze Indo-Aryan languages such as Hindi-Urdu and Bangla as SVO. We argue against this position, drawing on rightward scrambling in Hindi-Urdu to make this point. We propose an account of the phenomenon in terms of rightward remnant-VP movement. This account differs from proposals that posit rightward movement of individual arguments as well as from the antisymmetric proposals mentioned above, …
Two locations for negation: Evidence from Kashmiri
Kashmiri has two structural positions for negation: a high position associated with focus and a low position associated with tense. In verb second environments, the difference between these two positions is neutralized on the surface and irrespective of the location where negation is generated, it appears as a suffix on the finite verb. But in non-verb second environments such as conditionals and correlatives the two negations can be teased apart…
Expressives and Identity Conditions
April 01 2009 Expressives and Identity Conditions Christopher Potts, Christopher Potts Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Ash Asudeh, Ash Asudeh Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Seth Cable, Seth Cable Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Yurie Hara, Yurie Hara Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Eric McCready, Eric McCrea…
Harmonic Grammar with linear programming: From linear systems to linguistic typology
Harmonic Grammar is a model of linguistic constraint interaction in which well-formedness is calculated in terms of the sum of weighted constraint violations. We show how linear programming algorithms can be used to determine whether there is a weighting for a set of constraints that fits a set of linguistic data. The associated software package OT-Help provides a practical tool for studying large and complex linguistic systems in the Harmonic Gr…
Reduced and unreduced phrasal comparatives
Locating agreement in grammar: An argument from agreement in conjunctions
Coordination and finiteness in Malayalam: A commentary on Jayaseelan (2013)
Complete and defective agreement in Kutchi
We describe and analyze the previously undocumented verbal agreement system of Kutchi (Indo-Aryan). We argue that Kutchi instantiates a novel type of split ergativity. First, it exhibits an aspect split in that agreement in non-perfective clauses behaves on a par with agreement in intransitive perfective clauses, in stark contrast to transitive perfective clauses. A striking property of Kutchi is that these asymmetries manifest themselves in the …
Interpreting verb clusters
Conditionals
We provide a survey of major issues in the syntax of conditionals, advancing the view that if ‐clauses are free relatives of possible worlds. Similarly to the more familiar instances of free relatives of individuals, (i) conditional clauses likely involve clause‐internal operator‐movement to [SpecCP]; (ii) they receive the interpretation of definite descriptions; and (iii) they may participate in correlative structures as happens in the subcase o…
Long‐Distance Agreement
Long‐distance agreement (LDA) refers to agreement between a functional head in the extended projection of one lexical head with an argument of another lexical head. LDA is found in a variety of languages, including Indo‐Aryan (Hindi/Urdu, Kashmiri, Kutchi), Basque, Tsez, Chukotko‐Kamchatkan, and native North American languages (Innu‐aimûn, Passamaquoddy). All instances of LDA described in the literature share a number of properties. First, LDA us…
Implicit Arguments
This chapter surveys the environments which have been claimed to involve implicit arguments and raises questions concerning the formal status of these entities. The conclusion is that implicit arguments do not form a unified class, varying on features such as the ability to bind and to control, and their quantificational force. The chapter focuses on the diagnostics that are used to motivate and identify implicit arguments and how one might disti…
Restructuring and the scope of negation in Hindi-Urdu
In Hindi-Urdu, a negation which seems to be inside an infinitival complement can have effects typical of a matrix negation, e.g., NPI licensing in the matrix. We show that this exceptional behavior of negation is only possible with restructuring infinitives. We argue that the infinitival V moves out of the restructuring infinitive and into the matrix, and that it forms a cluster with the main verb. This movement makes the negative marker appear t…
Polar question particles: Hindi-Urdu kya
Copular agreement in Hindi-Urdu
In this paper, we present an analysis of Copular Agreement in Hindi-Urdu. We examine assumed identity copula structures (e.g., For today, I am him.), where we show that the broad characterization of the Hindi-Urdu agreement generalization – ‘agree with the highest unmarked DP’ – is insufficient: a structurally lower unmarked nominal has a demonstrable impact on the availability of agreement with a higher unmarked nominal. This interference arises…
The common core of relativization in Georgian
Degrees of animacy and telicity in Hindi intransitives: A corpus study
Intransitives are known to fall into two classes, unergatives and unac-cusatives, associated with a wide range of diverging properties. It has long been argued that the semantics of a given verb determines whether it will preferentially exhibit unergative or unaccusative behavior. In particular, agentive semantics has been associated with unergativity, telic semantics with unaccusativity. In this paper, we test this claim empirically using corpus…
Linguistics (19 works) · Philosophy (19 works) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (19 works) · Computer Science (18 works) · Mathematics (12 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (9 works) · Natural language processing (9 works) · Epistemology (8 works) · Natural Language Processing Techniques (7 works) · Verb (7 works)