MORPHOLOGICAL PROPERTIES OF BALOCHI VERBS

Abstract

This study aims to explore the properties of Balochi verbs in Makrani dialect. Verbs in Balochi are focused to see their properties in terms of derivations and inflections along with tense, aspect, number, person, voice, and mood. For this qualitative study (Creswell, 2014), the data have been collected through recording of unstructured interviews from native participants. The data have been analysed through Radford’s (2009) ‘theory of agreement’. In this process, it is found that Balochi, being a pro-drop language, subject agrees with the verb and verb with its subject. It is also found that verbs in Balochi have various properties and these properties are generalized by tense, number, mood, voice, and person. It is found that there are four moods in Balochi which are indicative, subjunctive, imperative and optative. The analysis of the study also shows that future simple and present simple have equal range of tense structure; in other words, they have the same structure. Numbers in Balochi sometime have zero formats and sometime singular nouns carry suffix ‘ئے=a/e=agreement’ and plural suffix ‘آں=aan=agreement’.Voice in Balochi always carries infinitive form of the verb. The study also finds that Balochi has different personal ending suffixes for each person. Keywords: Balochi, Inflections, Makrani, Morphology, Suffixation, Verbs