Burushaski Case Marking, Agreement and Implications: an Analysis of the Hunza Dialect
Description:
This thesis was written to explore the structural case patterns of the Burushaski sentence and to examine the different participant coding systems which appear between noun marking and verb agreement. Verb suffixes follow nominative alignment patterns of agreement, while the verb prefix agrees with the affected argument as determined by semantic relations, as opposed to syntactic ones. The agent noun phrase is directly marked when highly active or volitional, suggesting a system of agent markin…
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Date:
December 2012
Creator:
Smith, Alexander
Partner:
UNT Libraries