Selected Features of Bactrian Grammar

by Saloumeh Gholami

Extent: 238 pages

Publisher: Harrassowitz Verlag

Subjects: Language & Linguistics

Series: Göttinger Orientforschungen, III. Reihe: Iranica

Series volume number: 12

Language: English

Paperback (Published)

(December 2014)

ISBN: 9783447103008

6.65 x 9.45 inches

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Bactrian, the only Iranian language written in the Greek alphabet, was spoken in ancient Bactria in northern Afghanistan. It is an intermediary Middle Iranian language, possessing the characters of both Eastern and Western Iranian groups, and thus playing a very important role in the dialectology of Iranian Languages. Saloumeh Gholami’s study deals with various relatively unknown phonological, morphological and syntactical features of Bactrian and includes the following topics: historical phonology of Bactrian; the syntactical position of different kinds of nouns and their relationship in a sentence; the different types of pronouns and their syntactical properties; the function and syntactical position of prepositions and postpositions; adverbs and their formation; proximate and remote deixis adverbs as well as their different syntactic positions; various kinds of conjunctions and their functions; selected aspects of the verb; word order in clauses with transitive or intransitive verbs, and an investigation of double object constructions; as well as the different types of compounds.

By (author) Saloumeh Gholami

"Overall this book presents a detailed catalogue of Bactrian, and it gives the reader a general impression of the structure of the language, while giving a few comparisons to other languages. Generally speaking, this book is a good source of data for historical phonologists and to some extent for those working on syntax or morphology." --Blake Justin Collin Lewis, University of Calgary, LINGUIST List 27.2948
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