caa a22 4500 386328803 CHVBK 20180307111703.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198909 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0022226700014158 doi S0022226700014158 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0022226700014158 Van Der Wurff Wim Department of English, University of Amsterdam The syntax of participial adjuncts in Eastern Bengali [Elektronische Daten] [Wim Van Der Wurff] In this article I will discuss the syntactic properties of participial adjuncts in Eastern Bengali. From a GB-point of view, these constructions are quite interesting, because they can contain a nominative which is apparently not assigned by AGR, and because they show a quite intricate pattern of possibilities for coreference and disjoint reference, with some seemingly arbitrary differences among the three types of adjuncts. In Section 2, I shall present the empirical data for these constructions. In Section 3 I will discuss the relevant general syntactic principles of Eastern Bengali, specifically those responsible for Case-assignment, word-order, pro-drop (including ergative verbs) and binding properties. In Section 4, I will show that the characteristics of the participial constructions, including the apparently haphazard binding properties, follow from the general syntactic principles of Eastern Bengali, if we assume one simple statement for each type of adjunct. No further construction-specific stipulations need be made. To the extent that the analysis I propose can be upheld, it will constitute indirect support for the GB-mechanisms that are crucially involved in it. Apart from various principles of configurationality and binding, I will make use of the idea that there is no abstract AGR, in these cases at least, and also of the analysis of pro-drop as a silent clitic phenomenon, proposed in Safir (1985). It is of course a fact that the principles of grammar I appeal to still need to be investigated more carefully, and may have to be modified on the basis of data not yet taken into account or accurately analyzed. However, as they stand, the relevant principles of GB-theory appear to be able to account for the Eastern Bengali facts I discuss here. Apart from these more theoretical concerns, this paper naturally has an important descriptive component too, which I hope will make it also interesting to linguists working in a different theoretical framework and may stimulate linguists specifically concerned with Bengali to explore further the intricascies of this area of Bengali grammer. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1989 Journal of Linguistics Cambridge University Press 25/2(1989-09), 373-416 0022-2267 25:2<373 1989 25 LIN https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022226700014158 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022226700014158 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Van Der Wurff Wim Department of English, University of Amsterdam NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of Linguistics Cambridge University Press 25/2(1989-09), 373-416 0022-2267 25:2<373 1989 25 LIN CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge