TY  - BOOK
AU  - David,Anne
AU  - Brugman,Claudia
AU  - Brugman,Claudia M.
AU  - David,Anne Boyle
AU  - Fox,Melissa
AU  - Goodman,Sarah
AU  - Maxwell,Michael
AU  - Miller,Corey
AU  - Twist,Alina
TI  - Descriptive Grammar of Pashto and its Dialects
T2  - Mouton-CASL Grammar Series [MCASL]
SN  - 9781614513032
AV  - PK6723.D47 D38 2014eb
U1  - 491.80456 
PY  - 2013///]
CY  - Berlin, Boston
PB  - De Gruyter Mouton
KW  - Pushto language
KW  - Grammar
KW  - Pashto
KW  - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Indo-European Languages
N1  - Frontmatter --; Foreword --; Series Editors’ Preface --; Preface --; Contents --; 1. About this Grammar --; 2. The Pashto Language --; 3. Phonology and Orthography --; 4. Pashto Dialects --; 5. Nouns --; 6. Adjectives and Other Noun Modifiers --; 7. Pronouns --; 8. Verbs --; 9. Adpositions --; 10. Other Lexical Elements --; 11. Syntax --; A. Structure of this Grammar --; B. Sources of Pashto Data --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781614512318
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781614512318
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781614512318/original
ER  -