The CASL Pashto grammar originates from extensive use of both primary and secondary materials. 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. This companion volume deals with two of the most under-researched areas of study in the Modern Iranian field: the Persian oral and popular literature of Iran, Tajikistan and Persian-speaking Afghanistan on the one hand and the written and oral literatures of the Kurds, Pashtuns, Baloch and Ossetians on the other.ĭescriptive Grammar of Pashto and its Dialectsĭescriptive Grammar of Pashto and its Dialects Book Description : It includes extensive, revealing examples with contributions by prominent scholars who bring a fresh critical approach to bear on this important topic. This 18-volume, authoritative survey reflects the stature and significance of Persian literature as the single most important accomplishment of the Iranian experience. A History of Persian Literature answers this need and offers a new, comprehensive and detailed history of its subject. Yet Persian literature has never received the attention it truly deserves. It has profoundly influenced the literatures of Ottoman Turkey, Muslim India and Turkic Central Asia and been a source of inspiration for Goethe, Emerson, Matthew Arnold and Jorge Luis Borges among others. Persian literature is the jewel in the crown of Persian culture. Oral Literature of Iranian Languages Kurdish Pashto Balochi Ossetic Persian and Tajik Companion Volume II Book Description :Ī new History of Persian Literature in 18 Volumes. Oral Literature of Iranian Languages Kurdish Pashto Balochi Ossetic Persian and Tajik Companion Volume II Finally, the book concludes by emphasising the global implications of the study, and offers future recommendations for further research on this language. 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). 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. 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.
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. Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
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