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    Description and Categorization of Balti Inflectional and Derivational Morphemes
    (University of Management and Technology Lahore, 2016) Hussain, Iftikhar
    The current study aims to describe and categorize inflectional and derivational morphemes of Balti Language which is spoken by the people of Baltistan region of Gilgit Baltistan. Balti is one of the less documented languages in Pakistan and no remarkable documentation has been done on Balti morphology particularly on word formations/ morphemes. For this purpose the researcher selected 200 Balti root words (nouns, pronouns and verbs) from the corpus data using both the naturalistic and documented sources. The selected 200 words were analyzed within the paradigm of both inflectional and derivational morphemes descriptively using the qualitative research design. All the possible inflectional and derivational markers were analyzed through different tables and their morph syntactic and phonological constrains were also explained. Moreover, the collected data were analyzed and described in two phases. In the first phase all the inflectional features, e.g. tense, case, voice, aspect, person, number, gender and mood have been analyzed in order to find out total Balti inflectional morphemes. In the second phase word category and amendment of meaning of selected root words have been analyzed with the aim of finding out total Balti derivational morphemes. The study found 24 inflectional morphemes including 3 plural markers,6 case markers,1 gender marker,11 tense markers,3 mood markersand 6 derivational morphemes including 3 deverbal markers (derivation of nouns from verbs), and 3 denominal markers (derivation of adjectives from nouns).