Notes on Kalkoti: A Shina Language with Strong Kohistani Influences

Notes on Kalkoti: A Shina Language with Strong Kohistani Influences

This paper presents some novel and hard-to-access data from Kalkoti, an Indo-Aryan language spoken in northern Pakistan. The particular focus is on showing how this Shina variety in a relatively short time span has drifted apart from its closest known genealogical relatives and undergone significant...

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Main Author: Henrik Liljegren
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Dartmouth College Library 2013-01-01
Series:Linguistic Discovery
Subjects:
convergence
Dir
Kalkoti
aspect
tense
Indo-Aryan
tonogenesis
Kohistani
Shina
Dardic
grammaticalization
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1349/PS1.1537-0852.A.423
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Summary:This paper presents some novel and hard-to-access data from Kalkoti, an Indo-Aryan language spoken in northern Pakistan. The particular focus is on showing how this Shina variety in a relatively short time span has drifted apart from its closest known genealogical relatives and undergone significant linguistic convergence with a Kohistani variety in whose vicinity Kalkoti is presently spoken. Among other features, we explore what seems like an ongoing process of tonogenesis as well as structural ?copying? in the realm of tense and aspect.
ISSN:1537-0852

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