Publisher by : Cambridge Scholars Publishingĭescription : 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. A formal grammar focusing on the morphology is an available companion work. For the first time, the highly distinctive Middle dialects, including Waziri, receive attention next to the other major dialect groups. 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.
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. It attends to features of both spoken and written forms of Pashto and exemplifies the latter generously with naturally-occurring sentences. The CASL Pashto grammar originates from extensive use of both primary and secondary materials. Description : 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.
