Tista Bagchi

List of John Benjamins publications for which Tista Bagchi plays a role.

Title

Pragmatics and Autolexical Grammar: In honor of Jerry Sadock

Edited by Etsuyo Yuasa, Tista Bagchi and Katharine Beals

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 176] 2011. xxv, 339 pp.
Subjects Pragmatics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics

Articles

Bagchi, Tista 2011 Towards an intonational-illocutionary interfacePragmatics and Autolexical Grammar: In honor of Jerry Sadock, Yuasa, Etsuyo, Tista Bagchi and Katharine Beals (eds.), pp. 107–122 | Article
Sentence – or rather, utterance – intonation poses an interesting conceptual challenge for any linguistic theory that assumes a rigid separation of phonological and pragmatic representations (as assumed in current Minimalist theory), as does the interaction of structure with speech act (examined in… read more
Yuasa, Etsuyo, Tista Bagchi and Katharine Beals 2011 IntroductionPragmatics and Autolexical Grammar: In honor of Jerry Sadock, Yuasa, Etsuyo, Tista Bagchi and Katharine Beals (eds.), pp. xiii–xxvi | Miscellaneous
Bagchi, Tista 2007 On theta role assignment by feature checkingArgument Structure, Reuland, Eric J., Tanmoy Bhattacharya and Giorgos Spathas (eds.), pp. 159–173 | Article
Given the dominant role of the generalized syntactic operation of feature checking in contemporary Minimalist theory, the question arises as to whether feature checking is the primary mechanism whereby argument DPs get assigned their rightful theta roles in any syntactic derivation. This paper… read more