Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Transliteration -- (In)definiteness without articles: diagnosis, analysis, implications -- Differential comparatives in Hindi-Urdu -- The structure of complex predicates in Hindi-Urdu: evidence from verb-phrase ellipsis -- Case licensing in Hindi prenominal relative clauses -- Constraints on attributive functions of Hindi perfect participles manifesting the resultant state -- On the nature of the Hindi infinitive: History as an answer to its syntactic behavior? -- Main verb form in structures of ability/possibility in Hindi -- Agreement in conjunct verb construction: let's solve the problem -- Conjunct verbs in Hindi -- Impersonal expressions in Hindi-Urdu and phantom valents in Kashmiri -- An attempt to understand the encoding of reduced transitivity in Hindi: the case of compound verbs with jānā -- Syntactic constraints in modern Hindi -- A pragmatic account of directive strategies in Hindi -- Discovering the Hindi grammatical tradition: Historicity and second language acquisition -- List of contributors -- Index