Please join us this week for a meeting of the Language Variation & Change workshop, this Friday, February 21, from 3:30-5pm in Rosenwald 301. A light reception will follow.

Stative participles in Hazara Hindko
Elena Bashir, University of Chicago

I will discuss a stative participle construction in the Hindko spoken in Hazara Division in Pakistan. Hindko is the westernmost language cluster in the dialect continuum which also includes Panjabi and Saraiki. These participles were recently, serendipitously, identified in Abbottabad Hindko, and subsequent research has revealed that they are attested in several other locations in Hazara Division as well as numerous places in the western foothills of the Himalayas in India. The paper presents examples of the functions and structures in which they appear, and attempts an analysis of their origin and synchronic status. Possible grammaticization paths will also be discussed.