Abstract
The categorical status and nature of the clitics following Urdu pronominal words are considered controversial on account of their morphological behaviour. Different linguists have given them different categorical labels such as case-markers, postpositions, inflections, phrasal affixes, clitics, projecting and non-projecting words, etc. They loosely attach to their hosts and perform different morphological functions. When they adjoin pronouns, they do not make postpositional phrases. They make DPs and mark different kinds of oblique case: ergative case, dative case, locative case, ablative case and accusative case and assign different theta roles. The present study attempts to investigate and explore all these things in order to know the exact nature of the morphological behaviour of these Urdu pronominal clitics.

Umar-ud-Din, Dr. Nadeem Haider Bhukhari . (2017) The Morphological Behaviour of Urdu Pronominal Clitics , Bazyaft, Vol 30- 31, Issue 2 .
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