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Dative Subjects in South-Dravidian Languages by Sinhala Sahitya Sankathana is a document available to read on EtoBox.

This document is an undergraduate honors thesis submitted by Milla Nizar to the University of California, Berkeley on May 10, 2010. The thesis examines dative subject constructions in South Dravidian languages such as Malayalam, Tamil, and Kannada. It provides background on these three languages and their basic typological features. The thesis will then analyze dative subject constructions, evaluating whether the dative nominals should be considered subjects or indirect objects based on a range of syntactic

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Sinhala Sahitya Sankathana
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