Differential Object Marking in the Nuristani Languages (B08)

• Subject Area: Applied Linguistics, Computational Linguistics
• Term: since 2021
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 281511265

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 from which the different types of Nuristani predicates emerged; (c) a reconstruction of the DOM emergence and its subsequent evolution in Nuristani.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 1252: Prominence in Language
• Applicant Institution: Universität zu Köln
• Project Head: Professor Dr. Eugen Hill