Lunsford-Linguistic_structures_in_Torwali_2001.pdf

AN OVERVIEW OF LINGUISTIC STRUCTURES IN TORWALI,

A LANGUAGE OF NORTHERN PAKISTAN

The members of the Committee approve the masters

thesis of Wayne A. Lunsford

Donald A. Burquest ____________________________________

Supervising Professor

Paul R. Kroeger ____________________________________

David A. Ross ____________________________________

AN OVERVIEW OF LINGUISTIC STRUCTURES IN TORWALI,

A LANGUAGE OF NORTHERN PAKISTAN

WAYNE A. LUNSFORD

Presented to the Faculty of the Graduate School of

The University of Texas at Arlington in Partial Fulfillment

of the Requirements

for the Degree of

MASTER OF ARTS IN LINGUISTICS

THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON

December 2001

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Many people contributed individual efforts to help bring this thesis to completion so I want to take a mo-

ment to say thank you. To begin with, I want to express my appreciation to Don Burquest, who served as my

committee chair. I benefited a lot from his knowledge of linguistics and experience advising many thesis stu-

dents like myself. His comments and suggestions regarding the content and organization of this paper were in-

valuable, and his encouragement kept me going. I also appreciated the other members of my committee, Paul

Kroeger, who helped broaden my understanding of some of the grammatical issues addressed in this paper, and

David Ross, who has a much better understanding of the languages of Pakistan than I do and was willing to

share that knowledge with me.

Joan Baart, who has a great deal of experience working in the languages of northern Pakistan, also read

several drafts and offered many helpful suggestions for which I am grateful. I also want to say thank you to

Mike McMillan, who helped format some of the figures used in this paper.

Many thanks to the speakers of Torwali, who are some of the most hospitable people in the world. We

were grateful to them for allowing us to live with them and become students of their language and their way of

life.

Special recognition is due to Jahangir, who worked with me almost daily in our home in Peshawar, allow-

ing me to elicit data, analyze it and learn the language, Rahimullah, who took time off from his work during my

visits to Bahrain to help me learn the language, elicit language data and learn about the Torwali culture, and

Inamullah, who understands many of the phonological and grammatical features of the language and took time

to discuss them with me. Muhammad Zaman also offered me a great deal of assistance—meeting with me on a

number of occasions and responding to many questions sent via email. There were so many other Torwali

speakers whom I would also like to recognize, but space does not allow me to mention all of them individually.

They have taught me so much, and I hope to have many more opportunities to learn from them.

My wife, Valerie, and sons, Sean and Jordan, have been incredibly supportive and patient throughout this

whole project, but especially during the last few months as I pulled everything together into the present form. I

could not have finished this without them.

Finally, I want to thank the Lord, my God, for His sustaining grace and strength.

November 20, 2001

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