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- Title
THE NATURE OF ERGATIVE CASE MARKING IN PAHARI.
- Authors
Khalique, Shahida; Ishaq, Qudsia; Bukhari, Nadeem Haider
- Abstract
This study sets out to explore the nature of lirgative Case marking in Pahari language. The paper unfolds the fact that Pahari unlike its sister languages exhibits not only morphological split ergativity based on the uses of different aspects and tenses, but it also provides strong empirical emdence for ergativity at phonological level. As Pahari is mainly used for oral communication, the native speakers were observed and data analysis was doneto see the nature of Ergative Case marking in the aforementioned language. The data show that the ergative marker does not appear with the NPs that end with vowel sound. These nouns are covertly marked for Ergative Case. Subjects that end with consonants bear ergative markers. There is also a variation in Ergative markers, and Theergative markers '-e, -a -ain' are used to mark the subjects. This phenomenon sets Pahari apart from its sister languages that exhibit only morphological split ergativity and have only one ergative marker.
- Subjects
PAHARI languages; ERGATIVE constructions; SYNTAX (Grammar); DATA analysis; COMMON data elements (Metadata)
- Publication
Kashmir Journal of Language Research, 2013, Vol 16, Issue 2, p15
- ISSN
1028-6640
- Publication type
Article