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This is the most comprehensive survey ever published of the auxiliary verb construction. Drawing on a database of over 800 languages the author examines their morphosyntactic forms and semantic roles, and investigates the historical changes leading to the cross-linguistic diversity of inflectional patterns.

The Munda Verb is a unique book on the typology of the verb in the Munda language family, and the first of its kind on any language family of the Indian subcontinent. The authorpainstakingly works out nearly all the details of the morphology of the verb in each modern Munda language andoffers a description of the typology of the Munda verbal systems both individually and collectively. The author uses a large amount of data from modern Munda l...

The Munda group of languages of the Austroasiatic family are spoken within central and eastern India by almost ten million people. This work presents assessments of a range of typological and comparative-historical issues, providing agendas for research.

This unprecedented and original work draws together a distinguished group of international experts in the field of Munda language research and presents current assessments of a wide range of typological and comparative-historical issues.