BURUSHASKI-ENGLISH

Light Verbs and Noun Verb Agreement in Hunza Burushaski

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burushaski-english
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Linguistics Foreign
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2017-08-07 07:01:42

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Опубликована в Pakistaniaat: A Journal of Pakistan Studies Vol. 3, No. 3 (2011).This paper introduces the concept of Light Verbs and Noun Verb Agreement in Hunza Burushaski from a native speaker’s perspective by a student of linguistics in preparation for a future detailed study on the complex verb predicates and the general interaction of various types of verbs with six noun classes which produces a very complex notion of verbs in Burushaski. Burushaski is linguist isolate spoken in Gilgit-Baltistan region of Pakistan. This fascinating language has three distinct dialect groups in Hunza, Nagar and Yasin. This paper introduces two new concepts: light verbs and six noun classes in Burushaski that have not been discussed in the previous researches.

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