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Download full textWillson, Stephen R. – 1996
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…
Descriptors: Burushaski, Case (Grammar), Foreign Countries, Grammar
