Topics in the grammar of Kalkoti

Sammanfattning: This thesis presents a study of the phonological and morphosyntactic characteristics of Kalkoti, an understudied Indo-Aryan language of northern Pakistan. Kalkoti belongs to the Shina group of Indo-Aryan languages, but shows heavy influence from the Kohistani language Gawri, including the development of a complex tone system. The data used for the study were mostly collected in Pakistan in 2006 and 2015 as part of other projects, but a small amount of new data was collected as part of this study. Some notable results concern the behavior of the tone system as well as the heavily reduced nominal and verbal morphology. The ergative and genitive cases of nouns have become formally identical, and perfective verbs have by and large lost agreement, both of which set Kalkoti apart from its Shina relatives as well as from Gawri.