1 Case-Marked Clausal Subordination in Burushaski Complex Sentence Structure i

the most salient features of the language is its highly developed case system. In addition to the grammatical ergative and genitive cases, which contrast only for class-II or human female nouns, a range of other case forms are actively used in Burushaski. These include a set of three basic local-directional cases (lative-dative, ablative, and the mostly archaic locative) and a further set of complex local-directional cases, viz. superessive, superlative, superablative, inessive, illative, inablative, adessive, allative, (ad-)ablative, etc. There are two instrumental cases (the k-instrumental and the aÑe-instrumental), various lexicalized or lexically restricted local-directional and instrumental case forms, as well as a comitative case construction. A representative set of Burushaski case functions with (pro)nominals may be found in (1). (1) a. dasen-e hir park-ule del-u b. j̇áa-r á-s ˙-um-a girl-ERG man park-LOC hit-II I.OBLQ-DAT 1-say-DUR-AP-2 the girl hit the man in the park ’ ‘you will tell me’ [Field notes; Yasin Burushaski dialect] [Berger 1998: 69; Hunza/Nagar Burushaski