A Grammar of Khowar Descriptive and comparative analysis

This book is the first full-length English-language grammar of Khowar, one of the Far Northwestern Indo-Aryan languages. It reflects more than 30 years of field research by the author, and attempts to capture a snapshot of the language at the end of the twentieth century, a time when this and other...

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Main Author: Bashir, Elena
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London UCL Press 2025
Series:Grammars of World and Minority Languages
Subjects:
Asian languages
comparative historical linguistics
comparative linguistics
field research
grammar
Historical and comparative linguistics
Indo-Aryan
Khowar
Khowar language
Language and Linguistics
language categories
language change
language decline
language features
language planning
language revitalisation
language revival
language structure
Language teaching and learning
Language teaching and learning: first or native languages
Language teaching theory and methods
Language: reference and general
languages
Linguistics
minority language
morphology
Pakistan
phonology
Sociolinguistics
syntax
Usage and grammar guides
ISBN:9781800088153, 1800088213, 1800088167, 9781800088160, 9781800088214, 1800088159
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Summary:This book is the first full-length English-language grammar of Khowar, one of the Far Northwestern Indo-Aryan languages. It reflects more than 30 years of field research by the author, and attempts to capture a snapshot of the language at the end of the twentieth century, a time when this and other small mountain languages in northern Pakistan were undergoing rapid change, the pace of which continues to accelerate. An introductory chapter presents the language in its genetic, geographical, and typological contexts, and its multi-layered lexicon. There follow chapters on phonology, word formation and derivational morphology, nominal morphology, deictic elements, the verbal system, adjectival modification, adverbial modification, morphosyntax, and morphosemantics. This final chapter is a distillation of features of the language that are central to understanding how it conceives of and portrays the world. In addition to grammatical analysis and discussion, A Grammar of Khowar features numerous original example sentences, mostly contributed by senior, highly competent speakers of the language. A significant number of examples are drawn from oral texts recorded by the author in several villages. They are presented in roman representation and are accompanied by a complete morphological analysis and English translation. Additionally, an Appendix contains a 30-page sample text, presented first in Khowar’s Perso-Arabic script then by roman-based morphological analysis and an English translation by the author.
ISBN:9781800088153
1800088213
1800088167
9781800088160
9781800088214
1800088159
DOI:10.14324/111.9781800088177