Anastasia Panova (Stockholm University) Subordination strategies in Gawarbati (Indo-Aryan): an areal-typological perspective

Gawarbati is an under-described Indo-Aryan language spoken by approximately 20,000 people in the border area between Pakistan and Afghanistan. Since 2021, it has been documented by a Swedish-Pakistani team under the supervision of Henrik Liljegren (Stockholm University). One of the main outputs of the documentation project is a spoken corpus containing more than 20 hours of transcribed, glossed and translated speech from various genres. The focus of this talk will be on the use of finite subordination strategies in the Gawarbati corpus. I will start by presenting an overview of finite subordination strategies in neighboring Indo-Iranian languages. Against this background, I will describe the functions of each of the subordinators attested in the Gawarbati corpus. On the basis of the analysis of the functional distribution of various subordinators, I will try to reconstruct the possible stages in the evolution of subordination strategies in Gawarbati and discuss the role of language contact in this process.