This festschrift volume brings together important contributions by expert syntacticians across the globe on tense and finiteness, adjectives, dative and ergative case, acquisition of case, and other topics both within the domain of Dravidian linguistics and in the broader theoretical understanding of cross-linguistic data. Professor R. Amritavalli, a renowned linguist, has spent over three decades in the fields of syntax and syntactic acquisition, making important and landmark contributions in these areas, and this book is a recognition of her work. The contributors cover these themes in the context of English, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Hindi-Urdu, Bangla, Dravidian languages, and understudied languages like Huave. The analyses presented here have major implications for current theories of syntax and semantics, first and second language acquisition, language typology and historical linguistics, and will be a valuable resource for students, researchers and teachers.

Chapter 1. A Life in Linguistics  Gautam Sengupta, Shruti Sircar, Madhavi Gayathri Raman & Rahul Balusu .- Chapter 2. A Note on Huave morpheme ordering: Local dislocation or (generalized) U20? Hilda Koopman.- Chaper 3. Tense and the Realization of the Feminine Plural in Hindi-Urdu Rajesh Bhatt & Stefan Keine. -Chapter 4. English One and Ones as Complex Determiners Richard S. Kayne.- Chapter 5. The Influence of Visual, Auditory, and Linguistic Cues on Children’s Novel Verb Generalization Bhuvana Narasimhan, Fanyin Cheng, Patricia Davidson, Pui Fong Kan, and Madison Wagner.- Chapter 6. Prima la musica, dopo le parole? A small note on a big topic Josef Bayer.- Chapter 7. Floating Nasalization and Auxiliary Deletion in Hindi-Urdu Rajesh Bhatt & Stefan Keine.- Chapter 8. Argument Doubling in Japanese with VP-internal Focus Mamoru Saito.- Chapter 9. Parallel Work Spaces in Syntax and the Inexistence of Internal Merge K. A. Jayaseelan.- Chapter 10. Causality, Comitativity, Contrastivity, and Selfhood: A View from the Left Periphery and the vP Periphery Wei-Tei Dylan Tsai.- Chapter 11. On the Child's Role in Syntactic Change William Snyder.- Chapter 12. Root infinitive analogues as mood phrase without tense: evidence from Asian languages Keiko Murasugi.- Chapter 13. Getting the identical infinitives filter in Bangla under control Probal Dasgupta.