Rajat Ghosh, M Phil Thesis, CIEFL, 1995.
The focus of this thesis is on a group of nominal suffixes called "classifiers". These classifiers seem to play an important role in definiteness marking. A phrase structure tree for Bangla DP is proposed keeping in mind recent developments in syntactic theory; assuming e.g. Kayne's (1994) proposal that the Spec-Head-Complement order is universal, the thesis tries to derive the Bangla surface order by morphologically motivated movement. One of the main findings is that the apparent change in word order in some definite expressions is due to the requirement of a null definite determiner that its SPEC position be lexically filled.