Light Verbs and Noun Verb Agreement in Hunza Burushaski

Опубликована в Pakistaniaat: A Journal of Pakistan Studies Vol. 3, No. 3 (2011).This paper introduces the concept of Light Verbs and Noun Verb Agreement in
Hunza Burushaski from a native speaker’s perspective by a student of linguistics
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 that have not been
discussed in the previous researches.