Pashto phonology : an evaluation of the relationship between syllable structure and word order / Muhammad Kamal Khan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Khan, Muhammad Kamal, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pushto language.

Pushto language--Phonology, Comparative.

Pushto language--Consonants.

Pushto language--Word order.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (259 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2020.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Intro

Dedication

Table of Contents

List of Figures

List of Tables

Acknowledgements

Preface

Abbreviations and Symbols

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Bibliography

Appendix A

Appendix B

Appendix C

Appendix D.

Notes:

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ISBN:

1-5275-4925-9

1-5275-4608-X

OCLC:

1153778015