Light Verbs and Noun Verb Agreement in Hunza Burushaski
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The paper introduces the concept of Light Verbs and Noun Verb Agreement in Hunza Burushaski from a native speaker’s perspective and as a student of linguist 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 which has not been discussed in the previous researches.
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