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Book Synopsis Descriptive Grammar of Pashto and its Dialects by : Anne David
Download or read book Descriptive Grammar of Pashto and its Dialects written by Anne David and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2013-12-12 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis A Grammar of Pashto by : Herbert Penzl
Download or read book A Grammar of Pashto written by Herbert Penzl and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Current printing in July, 2009 by Ishi Press in New York and Tokyo."--t.p. verso.
Book Synopsis A Grammar of Pashto by : Herbert Penzl
Download or read book A Grammar of Pashto written by Herbert Penzl and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Descriptive Grammar of Bangla by : Anne Boyle David
Download or read book Descriptive Grammar of Bangla written by Anne Boyle David and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2015-06-16 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bangla is spoken as the majority language in Bangladesh and the state of West Bengal in India, and as a minority language in several other Indian states. With almost 200 million native speakers, it ranks among the top ten languages in the world in number of speakers. Based on both primary and secondary materials, the CASL Bangla grammar provides comprehensive coverage of the phonology, orthography, morphology, and syntax of Bangla. Plentiful examples of naturally-occurring sentences provide native orthography, Romanization, and morpheme-by-morpheme glossing along with free translations. Unlike many Romanizations of Bangla, our system eschews Sanskritic influence and instead reflects actual Bangla phonology. We also offer comparative information of use to linguists, highlighting features of Bangla shared with the South Asian sprachbund, such as light verb constructions, as well as those that differentiate Bangla from its Indo-Aryan relatives; for example, its unique NP structure. Written in an accessible style from a theory-neutral perspective, this work will be of use to linguistic researchers, language scholars, and students of Bangla. A formal grammar focusing on the morphology is an available companion work.
Book Synopsis The Languages and Linguistics of South Asia by : Hans Henrich Hock
Download or read book The Languages and Linguistics of South Asia written by Hans Henrich Hock and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2016-05-24 with total page 964 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With nearly a quarter of the world’s population, members of at least five major language families plus several putative language isolates, South Asia is a fascinating arena for linguistic investigations, whether comparative-historical linguistics, studies of language contact and multilingualism, or general linguistic theory. This volume provides a state-of-the-art survey of linguistic research on the languages of South Asia, with contributions by well-known experts. Focus is both on what has been accomplished so far and on what remains unresolved or controversial and hence offers challenges for future research. In addition to covering the languages, their histories, and their genetic classification, as well as phonetics/phonology, morphology, syntax, and sociolinguistics, the volume provides special coverage of contact and convergence, indigenous South Asian grammatical traditions, applications of modern technology to South Asian languages, and South Asian writing systems. An appendix offers a classified listing of major sources and resources, both digital/online and printed.
Book Synopsis The World's Major Languages by : Bernard Comrie
Download or read book The World's Major Languages written by Bernard Comrie and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-04-17 with total page 1125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The World's Major Languages features over 50 of the world's languages and language families. This revised edition includes updated bibliographies for each chapter and up-to-date census figures. The featured languages have been chosen based on the number of speakers, their role as official languages and their cultural and historical importance. Each language is looked at in depth, and the chapters provide information on both grammatical features and on salient features of the language's history and cultural role. The World’s Major Languages is an accessible and essential reference work for linguists.
Book Synopsis A Descriptive Grammar of Hindko, Panjabi, and Saraiki by : Elena Bashir
Download or read book A Descriptive Grammar of Hindko, Panjabi, and Saraiki written by Elena Bashir and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2019-08-19 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hindko, Panjabi, and Saraiki are three closely related, geographically contiguous languages of Pakistan. Together, they are the native language of some 125 million people. Panjabi alone ranks among the 15 most widely spoken languages in the world. The Grammar of Hindko, Panjabi, and Saraiki provides a comparative description of these three language varieties, focusing, where possible, on the variety of Hindko spoken in Abbottabad, the Panjabi spoken in Lahore, and the Saraiki spoken in Multan. Based on both fieldwork and corpus research, the grammar provides coverage of the phonology, orthography, morphology, and syntax of the language, with extensive exemplification presented in the native Perso-Arabic script along with standard Roman representations and morphological analysis. Written in an accessible style from a basic linguistic theory perspective, this work will be of use to linguistic researchers, language scholars, and students of the languages of Pakistan and South Asia.
Book Synopsis Mountstuart Elphinstone in South Asia by : Shah Mahmoud Hanifi
Download or read book Mountstuart Elphinstone in South Asia written by Shah Mahmoud Hanifi and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-07-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mountstuart Elphinstone (1779-1859), Lowland Scottish traveller, East India Company civil servant and educator, was one of the principal intellectual architects of British colonial rule in South Asia. Imbued with liberal views, such that Bombay's wealthy founded Elphinstone College in his memory, he pioneered the scholarly, scientific and administrative foundations of imperialism in India. Elphinstone's career was launched when he was picked to lead the inaugural British diplomatic mission to the Afghan court. His Account of the Kingdom of Caubul (1815) became the main source of British information about Afghanistan. He is best known for his periods as Resident at Poona and Governor of Bombay in the 1810s and 1820s, when he instituted innovative and lasting policies in administration and education while also conducting research for his extremely influential History of India (1841). This volume examines Mountstuart Elphinstone's intellectual contributions and administrative career in their own right, in relation to prominent contemporaries including Charles Metcalfe and William Moorcroft, and in the context of later historical study of India, Afghanistan, British imperialism and its imperial frontiers.
Book Synopsis Dari Grammar and Phrase Book by : Ehsan M. Entezar
Download or read book Dari Grammar and Phrase Book written by Ehsan M. Entezar and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-06-04 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Perfects in Indo-European Languages and Beyond by : Robert Crellin
Download or read book Perfects in Indo-European Languages and Beyond written by Robert Crellin and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2020-09-15 with total page 702 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides a detailed investigation of perfects from all the branches of the Indo-European language family, in some cases representing the first ever comprehensive description. Thorough philological examinations result in empirically well-founded analyses illustrated with over 940 examples. The unique temporal depth and diatopic breadth of attested Indo-European languages permits the investigation of both TAME (Tense-Aspect-Mood-Evidentiality) systems over time and recurring cycles of change, as well as synchronic patterns of areal distribution and contact phenomena. These possibilities are fully exploited in the volume. Furthermore, the cross-linguistic perspective adopted by many authors, as well as the inclusion of contributions which go beyond the boundaries of the Indo-European family per se, facilitates typological comparison. As such, the volume is intended to serve as a springboard for future research both into the semantics of the perfect in Indo-European itself, and verb systems across the world’s languages.
Book Synopsis A grammar of Palula by : Henrik Liljegren
Download or read book A grammar of Palula written by Henrik Liljegren and published by Language Science Press. This book was released on 2016-02-26 with total page 493 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This grammar provides a grammatical description of Palula, an Indo-Aryan language of the Shina group. The language is spoken by about 10,000 people in the Chitral district in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province. This is the first extensive description of the formerly little-documented Palula language, and is one of only a few in-depth studies available for languages in the extremely multilingual Hindukush-Karakoram region. The grammar is based on original fieldwork data, collected over the course of about ten years, commencing in 1998. It is primarily in the form of recorded, mainly narrative, texts, but supplemented by targeted elicitation as well as notes of observed language use. All fieldwork was conducted in close collaboration with the Palula-speaking community, and a number of native speakers took active part in the process of data gathering, annotation and data management. The main areas covered are phonology, morphology and syntax, illustrated with a large number of example items and utterances, but also a few selected lexical topics of some prominence have received a more detailed treatment as part of the morphosyntactic structure. Suggestions for further research that should be undertaken are given throughout the grammar. The approach is theory-informed rather than theory-driven, but an underlying functional-typological framework is assumed. Diachronic development is taken into account, particularly in the area of morphology, and comparisons with other languages and references to areal phenomena are included insofar as they are motivated and available. The description also provides a brief introduction to the speaker community and their immediate environment.
Author :Shuan Osman Karim, Saloumeh Gholami Publisher :Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG ISBN 13 :3111169286 Total Pages :330 pages Book Rating :4.1/5 (111 download)
Book Synopsis Gorani in its Historical and Linguistic Context by : Shuan Osman Karim, Saloumeh Gholami
Download or read book Gorani in its Historical and Linguistic Context written by Shuan Osman Karim, Saloumeh Gholami and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2024-08-31 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Grammar of Pashto by : Herbert Penzi
Download or read book A Grammar of Pashto written by Herbert Penzi and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Pashto Grammar written by Noor Ullah and published by Authorhouse UK. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis A Historical Grammar of Pashto by : Julian Kreidl
Download or read book A Historical Grammar of Pashto written by Julian Kreidl and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation covers Pashto phonology, morphology and syntax from a historical perspective and tries to partially close a lacuna in the field of Pashto linguistics as well as Indo-Iranian linguistics more broadly. Despite Pashto being the second-most spoken Iranian language (after Persian), all areas of Pashto grammar are understudied, even when compared to other Iranian languages like Kurdish. This work is the first general historical grammar of Pashto and in addition to new contributions to our understanding of Pashto, it aims to serve as a reference for further historical linguistic research on other Eastern Iranian languages. Pashto is only attested for about half a millennium, and no attested Middle Iranian language can be considered a direct ancestor of Pashto. It is characterized by both archaisms and innovations which make it a rich and complex language to investigate from a diachronic and synchronic perspective. This historical study reconstructs the evolution of Pashto from Old Iranian via Middle Pashto and Early New Pashto to the contemporary varieties, with special attention to phonology (e.g. the sound changes and phoneme inventories in the respective stages of the language), morphology (e.g. case morphology, the relationship of past and present stems) and syntax (e.g. split-ergativity). The new findings in this work also suggest that Middle Pashto was an interesting Middle Iranian language, with its consonant phoneme inventory being similar to that of Bactrian, but with a conservative case system comparable to that of Sogdian and Khotanese and a distinction of light and heavy (verbal and nominal) stems similar to what we know from Sogdian (although the Sogdian light and heavy stems work differently).
Book Synopsis Iranian Syntax in Classical Armenian by : Robin Meyer
Download or read book Iranian Syntax in Classical Armenian written by Robin Meyer and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-02-29 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book draws on a detailed corpus analysis of fifth-century historiographical texts to explore the influence of the Iranian languages on the syntax of Armenian. Robin Meyer argues that the Armenian periphrastic perfect was created on the model of similar constructions in Parthian via a long period of language contact.
Book Synopsis Elementary Predicates and Related Categories by : Ludovico Franco
Download or read book Elementary Predicates and Related Categories written by Ludovico Franco and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2024-07-15 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a fresh perspective on how natural languages encode grammatical relations, by delving into the interplay between oblique cases, adpositions, serial verbs, and applicatives. This book reveals, through a series of case studies, the pervasive role of the 'inclusion' relator across diverse linguistic contexts. Departing from traditional views that obliques lack interpretive content, this work presents a unified conceptual framework of relations in grammar. Drawing on minimalist principles, the book posits a preeminence of the lexicon in syntactic projection, shedding light on the underlying ontology of language. By exploring cross-categorial variation and syncretism, it outlines an inventory of primitives shaping morpho-syntactic derivations.
