The Notion of Subject in South Asian Languages. South Asian Studies Publication Series, Number 2.

The following papers on subject in South Asian languages are compiled here: (1) "Subject in Sanskrit" by George Cardona; (2) "Is Sinhala a Subject Language? (or, How Restricted is Your PNP?)" by James W. Gair; (3) "Some Syntactic Reflexes of Sub-Categories of Agent in Hindi" by Peter Edwin Hook; (4) "The Notion 'Subject,' a Note on Hindi-Urdu, Kashmiri and Panjabi" by Yamuna Kachru, Braj B. Kachru, and Tej K. Bhatia; (5) "The Notion of Subject and Agent in Hindi" by Anjani Kumar Sinha; (6) "Subjecthood, Reflexivization, Emphatic Pronominalization and Clause Matedness in Bengali (with Some Side Glances at Hindi)" by M. H. Klaiman; (7) "Nested Caste Relations and the Subject in Tamil" by James M. Lindholm; (8) "Dative Subject in Malayalam" by David W. McAlpin; (9) "From Passive to Ergative in Indo-Aryan" by Bruce R. Pray; (10) "The Notion of 'Subject' in Kannada" by S. N. Sridhar; (11) "Subject in Gujarati: An Examination of Verb-Agreement Phenomenon" by P. J. Mistry; and (12) "The Notion of Subject and the Data from Nepali" by M. K. Verma. (JB)