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Wakhi past tense agreement clitics are classified as second position, or Wackernagel, clitics, similar to those in Pashto, Tagalog and Ancient Greek. Various approaches in the literature analyze these clitics through phonological, syntactic or hybrid perspectives. In some propos…

This dissertation shows how the performance of oral expressive forms represents and construes reality in the Wakhi community of northern Pakistan. It emphasizes the role of contextual reference to the physical, social, and cultural environment in studying how the interpretive pa…