AGREEMENT MARKERS IN BRAHUI: A MORPHOSYNTACTIC ANALYSIS

Abstract

The current study analyses and investigates the agreement markers in the Brahui language. Brahui is spoken in Pakistan, mainly in Balochistan and Sindh, and other countries like Iran and Afghanistan (Baranzehi, 2003). The purpose of this study is to see if agreement markers exist in various aspects of
the Brahui language. Using Haegeman’s (1994) theory of agreement, it tries to respond to the research question: How do number, person, and tense inflections interact with the phenomenon of agreement markers in the Brahui language? The agreement between a verb and its arguments is a significant
subject to study in any language. Even though many studies have been carried on this aspect in many languages, to our knowledge, no one has done so in Brahui, which is why we consider it a research concern that needs to be explored. The researchers used a qualitative method based on secondary data
for analyzing the use of agreement markers in Brahui. The relevant research study is descriptive and analytical in nature, dealing with its qualitative description, analysis, investigation, and discoveries. At the end, the study discovers that number, person, and tense markers are present in the Brahui language. However, these markers work differently from other languages of the country.