Pashto phonology : an evaluation of the relationship between syllable structure and word order
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Pashto phonology : an evaluation of the relationship between syllable structure and word order
Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2020
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"This book is a slightly modified version of my PhD dissertation, which I submitted at the University of Azad Jammu and Kashmir (UAJK), Pakistan, in 2012"--P. [xii]
Bibliography: p. [207]-218
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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.
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