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This dissertation examines the morphology and syntax of Balanta (Ganja dialect) in light of recent developments in syntactic theory. The picture that emerges is a highly unified one, with clauses and noun phrases having similar structures, and verbal morphology reflecting the hi…

The purpose of this dissertation is to explore major areas of Pashto syntax. It provides a unified account of agreement and clitics which in constructions such as relative clauses, represent core arguments. Agreement suffixes allow the coreferenced NP to be null in a sentence. O…