A typology of verb agreement in Burushaski

Burushaski is a language isolate spoken in the Northern Areas, Pakistan, by approximately 60-80,000 people. Nouns belong to one of four inflectional classes in Burushaski, human male, human female, general animate and inanimate, with a few semantically inanimate nouns belonging to the `animate�...

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Main Authors: Anderson, Gregory D. S., Eggert, Randall
Other Authors: University of Manchester
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10356/178048
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Institution: Nanyang Technological University
Language: English
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Summary:Burushaski is a language isolate spoken in the Northern Areas, Pakistan, by approximately 60-80,000 people. Nouns belong to one of four inflectional classes in Burushaski, human male, human female, general animate and inanimate, with a few semantically inanimate nouns belonging to the `animate' class (1).