South Asian Languages: A Syntactic TypologySouth Asian languages are rich in linguistic diversity and number. This book explores the similarities and differences of about forty languages from the four different language families (Austro Asiatic, Dravidian, Indo Aryan (Indo European) and Tibeto Burman (Sino Tibetan)). It focuses on the syntactic typology of these languages and the high degree of syntactic convergence, with special reference to the notion of 'India as a linguistic area'. Several