Descriptive Grammar of Pashto and its Dialects

Descriptive Grammar of Pashto and its Dialects
Author: Anne David
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Total Pages: 530
Release: 2013-12-12
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1614512310

Pashto/Pushto/Pukhto is a group of varieties used by as many as 30 million people in Afghanistan and Pakistan, yet a grammar describing these varieties collectively has not been published. The CASL Pashto grammar originates from extensive use of both primary and secondary materials. It attends to features of both spoken and written forms of Pashto and exemplifies the latter generously with naturally-occurring sentences. Detailed descriptions are provided of the phonology and orthography and of the inflectional and derivational morphology applied to all major word classes, with special attention to the complex morphology of verb formation and descriptions of the multiple pronominal systems. Notes on some of the prominent syntactic constructions are provided as a descriptive basis for learners of Pashto and for those interested in syntactic properties characteristic of South Asian languages. For the first time, the highly distinctive Middle dialects, including Waziri, receive attention next to the other major dialect groups. A formal grammar focusing on the morphology is an available companion work.

Descriptive Grammar of Pashto and Its Dialects

Descriptive Grammar of Pashto and Its Dialects
Author: Anne Boyle David
Publisher: Mouton-Casl Grammar Series [Mc
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 9781614513032

The series aims to make a significant contribution to modern language studies by providing up-to-date, linguistically sophisticated, and comprehensive language materials, of use to a wide spectrum of users, on major world languages which have hitherto been largely neglected.

Pashto Grammar

Pashto Grammar
Author: Noor Ullah
Publisher: Authorhouse UK
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011
Genre: Pasto language
ISBN: 9781456780074

Being an ergative language the learning of Pashto has always been very difficult for teachers and students both. 'Pashto Grammar' has explored the language and made it easy and simple for every one.

Grammar and Vocabulary of Waziri Pashto

Grammar and Vocabulary of Waziri Pashto
Author: J.G. Lorimer
Publisher: Рипол Классик
Total Pages: 361
Release: 2009
Genre: History
ISBN: 5876933538

Для студентов, аспирантов, преподавателей, а также для практикующих специалистов

A Grammar of Pashto

A Grammar of Pashto
Author: Herbert Penzl
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2009
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 9780923891725

"Current printing in July, 2009 by Ishi Press in New York and Tokyo."--t.p. verso.

Pashto Phonology

Pashto Phonology
Author: Muhammad Kamal Khan
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 259
Release: 2020-04-08
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1527549259

The book provides a detailed analysis of the relationship between syllable structure and word order, a long-standing correlation in typological linguistics which has been previously described as an implicational universal. It presents data from Pashto (an Eastern-Iranian language spoken mainly in Pakistan and Afghanistan), and explores consonant clusters and the basic word order of the language. It begins by introducing the Pashto language, before going on to highlight the word order typology and language universals, followed by a detailed analysis of its syllable structure and basic word order in light of the Optimality Theoretic (OT) framework. The study then takes up the case of the basic word order as a weak foundation for such a typological correlation and challenges this view of structural implications by comparing Pashto (an SOV language) with English (an SVO language). Finally, the book concludes by emphasising the global implications of the study, and offers future recommendations for further research on this language.

Dari Grammar and Phrase Book

Dari Grammar and Phrase Book
Author: Ehsan M. Entezar
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 134
Release: 2010-06-04
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 1450099327

Dari Grammar and Phrasebook is the result of many years of research and teaching. It has two parts. Part one (grammar) is a systematic presentation of Dari sound system (phonology, word formation (morphology) and sentence structure (syntax). Each chapter begins with an introduction. This is followed by analysis of the new concepts providing plenty of examples and illustrations. Next comes the chapter summary. Each chapter in part one ends with exercises. Part two (phrasebook) is about how to communicate with Afghans on a variety of situations (topics). This part first discusses language functions such as asking, ordering, requesting, apologizing, persuading, and so on. The second part is about topics or situations involving shopping, health, transportation, security, government and so on. The relevant vocabulary under each topic is listed into nouns, verbs and adjectives. The topics also include cross-cultural notes and proverbs.