Mock defense: Anastasia Panova, PhD student at the department of Linguistics, Stockholm University
Mock defence of Anastasia Panova’s forthcoming dissertation: A morphosyntax of Gawarbati.
Anastasia Panova is a PhD student in linguistics, specializing in general linguistics. Her thesis is a corpus-based description of the morphosyntax of Gawarbati, an Indo-Aryan language spoken by approximately 20,000 people in the border region between Pakistan and Afghanistan.
The thesis focuses on the variety of Gawarbati spoken in the village of Arandu, Pakistan. The data come from the spoken corpus of Gawarbati, collected and annotated as part of the project “Gawarbati: Documenting a vulnerable linguistic community in the Hindu Kush” (VR 2020-01500), led by Henrik Liljegren.
The monograph consists of six chapters. The introductory chapter provides background information on the sociolinguistic situation and an overview of Gawarbati phonology. The second chapter examines the morphological properties of word classes in Gawarbati (nouns, adjectives, verbs, etc.). The following three chapters discuss the syntax of noun phrases, simple sentences and complex sentences, respectively. The sixth chapter covers question formation, negation strategies and selected aspects of discourse.
Mock opponent: Senior Lecturer Emerita Elena Bashir, University of Chicago
Supervisors: Henrik Liljegren and Maria Koptjevskaja Tamm
Last updated: 2026-11-13
Source: Department of Linguistics