Squibs, each describing a category of Hindi-Urdu or Marathi
grammar that has so far gone unnoticed and unnamed in descriptive
linguistics — new templates, if you will.
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Uni- and duo-verbations in Hindi-Urdu causal chains
Cause and effect fused in a single utterance — two subjects, two related verbs, no complementizer. PDF, 2 pages.
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Alliteratives
Forthcoming.
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Toggling signifiers
Forthcoming.
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Success Constructions in Hindi-Urdu
Hierarchical duplication in place of explicit adverbial modifiers — 'gradually', 'barely', 'almost' — and in antitheses. PDF, 2 pages.
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Oriented verbs in Marathi
Verbs of motion oriented by a deictic preverb, and how they differ from compound verbs and serial verb constructions. PDF, 6 pages.
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Hindi-Urdu's Cobra Construction
Subject–verb inversion, the venitive preverb ā-, and the preterite in reports of shock or surprise. PDF, 2 pages.
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Using the passive against the intransitive to reassign responsibility
Another idiomatic construction in Hindi-Urdu. PDF, 4 pages.
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The Ghalib construction
Forthcoming.