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 marking on the noun phrase and nominative alignment on the verb suffix. Nominative alignment also allows for a less marked presence of passive voice. Burushaski's agent marking is not entirely consistent; however, its nominative alignment is consistent. The conclusion is that Burushaski is not an ergative language at all.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:unt.edu/info:ark/67531/metadc177257 |
| Date | 12 1900 |
| Creators | Smith, Alexander |
| Contributors | Munshi, Sadaf, Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi, Montler, Timothy |
| Publisher | University of North Texas |
| Source Sets | University of North Texas |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | Text |
| Rights | Public, Smith, Alexander, Copyright, Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights Reserved. |
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