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.

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.

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.