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Burushaski
About: Burushaski is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 59 publications have been published within this topic receiving 414 citations. The topic is also known as: Burushaski language & bsk.
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Dissertation•
6 Dec 2012TL;DR: This paper showed that retroflex consonant harmony is an areal trait affecting most languages in the northern half of the South Asian subcontinent, including languages from at least three of the four major families in the region: Dravidian, Indo-Aryan and Munda.
Abstract: This dissertation explores the nature and extent of retroflex consonant harmony in South Asia. Using statistics calculated over lexical databases from a broad sample of languages, the study demonstrates that retroflex consonant harmony is an areal trait affecting most languages in the northern half of the South Asian subcontinent, including languages from at least three of the four major families in the region: Dravidian, Indo-Aryan and Munda (but not Tibeto-Burman). Dravidian and Indo-Aryan languages in the southern half of the subcontinent do not exhibit retroflex consonant harmony. In South Asia, retroflex consonant harmony is manifested primarily as a static cooccurrence restriction on coronal consonants in roots/words. Historical-comparative evidence reveals that this pattern is the result of retroflex assimilation that is non-local, regressive and conditioned by the similarity of interacting segments. These typological properties stand in contrast to those of other retroflex assimilation patterns, which are local, primarily progressive, and not conditioned by similarity. This is argued to support the hypothesis that local feature spreading and long-distance feature agreement constitute two independent mechanisms of assimilation, each with its own set of typological properties, and that retroflex consonant harmony is the product of agreement, not spreading. Building on this hypothesis, the study offers a formal account of retroflex consonant harmony within the Agreement by Correspondence (ABC) model of Rose & Walker (2004) and Hansson (2001; 2010). Two Indo-Aryan languages, Kalasha and Indus Kohistani, figure prominently throughout the dissertation. These languages exhibit similarity effects that have not been clearly observed in other retroflex consonant harmony systems; retroflexion is contrastive in both nonsibilant (i.e., plosive) and sibilant obstruents (i.e., affricates and fricatives), but harmony applies only within each manner class, not between them. At the same time, harmony is not sensitive to laryngeal features. Theoretical implications of these and other similarity effects are discussed.
100 citations
Book•
6 Aug 1991
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a survey of the most commonly spoken languages in the world: Abkhaz, Afrikaans, Akan, Amharic, Andamanese, Apache, Arabic, Arapaho, Aymara, Balinese, Bambara, Basque, Bengali, Breton, Buginese, Bulgarian, Burushaski, Carib, Catalan, Cebuano, Cherokee, Chinese Archaic/Classical/Modern Standard, Choctaw, Chukchi, Dardic, Dutch, Egyptian, Evenki
Abstract: Languages include: Abkhaz, Afrikaans, Akan, Amharic, Andamanese, Apache, Arabic, Arapaho, Aymara, Balinese, Bambara, Basque, Bengali, Breton, Buginese, Bulgarian, Burushaski, Carib, Catalan, Cebuano, Cherokee, Chinese Archaic/Classical/Modern Standard, Choctaw, Chukchi, Dardic, Dutch, Egyptian, Evenki, Faeroese, Gorontalo, Greek, Guarani, Gujarati, Hebrew, Hindi, Hopi, Inuit, Japanese Classical/Modern Standard, Javanese, Juang, Ket, Khmer, Khung, Korean, Kurdish, Lezgi, Lithuanian, Macassarese, Manchu, Manx, Maori, Mapudungu, Marathi, Margi, Maya, Nahuatl, Nama, Navaho, Nenets, Nepali, Old Norse, Oriya, Panjabi, Quechua, Romany, Russian, Santali, Sinhalese, Sumerian, Swahili, Tangut, Thai, Tlingit, Tongan, Tupi, Udmurt, Urdu, Uzbek, Veps, Wolof, Wu, Yi, Yoruba, Zapotecan, Zhuang and Zuni.
81 citations
1 Jan 1996
TL;DR: Analysis of a form of Burushaski, spoken in northern Pakistan, uses Relational Grammar (RG), targeting grammatical relations at different strata in a clause, to account for a wide range of verb agreement and case marking phenomena, finding that the RG notions of unaccusative and unergative are sufficient to characterize the two major groupings of intransitive verbs.
Abstract: Analysis of a form of Burushaski, spoken in northern Pakistan, uses Relational Grammar (RG), targeting grammatical relations at different strata in a clause, to account for a wide range of verb agreement and case marking phenomena. It is found that the RG notions of unaccusative and unergative are sufficient to characterize the two major groupings of intransitive verbs. The nominals that can trigger object agreement on the verb are accounted for by various revaluation constructions. The grammar sanctions inversion, multi-predicate causative constructions, and impersonal constructions with a silent dummy nominal, thus making a similar case for subject agreement. Burushaski particularly lends support for RG claims about antipassive constructions. The RG notion of ascension is sufficient to account for possessor object agreement with verbs that govern this construction. Analyzing clauses with auxiliaries as multi-predicate construction helps account for absence or presence of object agreement in some situations. Causatives and inversion are also seen as multi-predicate constructions. Case marking of certain nominals is often sensitive to grammatical relations within a clause; if a nominal bears a certain relation in a clause, it will receive appropriate marking in spite of other grammatical relations. The rule for ergative case marking is similar. Contains 66 references. (MSE) *********************************************************************** Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made * from the original document. U.S. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION Office of Educational Research and improvement EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INFORMATION ffIrCENTER (ERIC) is document has been reproduced as received from the person or organization originating it. Minor changes have been made to improve reproduction quality. Points of view or opinions stated in this document do not necessarily represent official OERI position or policy. Verb Agreement and Case Marking in Burushaski
66 citations
TL;DR: In the Burushaski language, the subject of a transitive verb is in the ergative case (a special case, usually marked by the suffix-e) while the subject and object of transitive verbs are in the absolutive case (morphologically unmarked) as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: In his pioneer work on the Burushaski language, Lorimer (1935a:64) noted the existence of what has been later described as an ergative construction: the subject of a transitive verb is in the ergative case (a special case, usually marked by the suffix-e) while the subject of inttransitive verbs, as well as the object of transitive verbs, are in the absolutive case (morphologically unmarked) as appears in the examples 1(a)-(c) below:
53 citations
12 Jan 2013
TL;DR: This article brought together new work on under-researched Himalayan languages with investigations into the complexities of the area's linguistic history, offering original data and perspectives on the synchrony and diachrony of the Greater Himalayan Region.
Abstract: The Himalaya and surrounding regions are amongst the world's most linguistically diverse places. Of an estimated 600 languages spoken here at Asia's heart, few are researched in depth and many virtually undocumented. Historical developments and relationships between the region's languages also remain poorly understood. [Title] brings together new work on under-researched Himalayan languages with investigations into the complexities of the area's linguistic history, offering original data and perspectives on the synchrony and diachrony of the Greater Himalayan Region.
The volume arises from papers given and topics discussed at the 16th Himalayan Languages Symposium in London in 2010. Most papers focus on Tibeto-Burman languages. These include topics relating to individual - mostly small and endangered - languages, such as Tilung, Shumcho, Rengmitca, Yongning Na and Tshangla; comparative research on the Tibetic, East Bodish and Tamangic language groups; and several papers whose scope covers the whole language family. The remaining paper deals with the origins of Burushaski, whose genetic affiliation remains uncertain.
38 citations
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