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B08 - Differential Object Marking in the Nuristani Languages

The project will investigate the prominence-related DOM in three languages belonging to the Nuristani sub-branch of Indo-Iranian: Prasun, Nuristani Kalasha, and Katë. The differences observed between the DOM-patterns of these languages indicate that DOM either emerged in them independently or, once emerged, developed in different ways. The objectives are: (a) a comprehensive corpus-based investigation of the DOM-systems in the Nuristani languages; (b) establishing the diachronic sources out of which the different types of Nuristani predicates emerged; (c) a reconstruction of the DOM emergence and its subsequent evolution in Nuristani.

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Team

Student Assistants


Franziska - Kristin Kovacs | fkovacs(at)smail.uni-koeln.de

List of Publications

To appear

  • Hill, Eugen. To appear. Reconstructing morphology in historical-comparative linguistics. In Peter Arkadiev & Franz Rainer (eds.), Oxford Handbook of Historical Morphology. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

2023

2022