IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/glr/journl/v2y2017i1p106-113.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Compounding in Pashto: An Analysis of Compound and Compound- Complex Adjectives

Author

Listed:
  • Akbar Ali

    (Assistant Professor)

  • Muhammad Yasir Khan

    (Lecturer)

  • Bilal Khan

    (Lecturer)

Abstract

Compounding as the word formation process is common across languages. Pashto language uses it as a productive morphological process. The paper aims at the structural description of compound and compound-complex adjectives in the language. For this purpose the data were collected through discourse centered method, Pashto newspapers and Pashto programmes on T.V and radio. The data is analyzed using Plag’s (2003) work on word formation in English as theoretical framework. The analysis proves that the grammatical categories exploited in order to derive non-simple adjectives are that of noun, verb and adjective. Further, it also reveals the fact that compound-complex adjectives are derived through synthetic compounding. It also denote the fact that in cases where compound-complex words are formed, the suffixed is invariably attached to the element on the right.

Suggested Citation

  • Akbar Ali & Muhammad Yasir Khan & Bilal Khan, 2017. "Compounding in Pashto: An Analysis of Compound and Compound- Complex Adjectives," Global Language Review, Humanity Only, vol. 2(1), pages 106-113, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:glr:journl:v:2:y:2017:i:1:p:106-113
    DOI: 10.31703/glr.2017(II-I).08
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://glrjournal.com/jadmin/Auther/31rvIolA2LALJouq9hkR/AstPMQxUej.pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://www.glrjournal.com/issue/Compounding-in-Pashto:-An-Analysis-of-Compound-and-Compound-Complex-Adjectives
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.31703/glr.2017(II-I).08?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    More about this item

    Keywords

    Compounding; Pashto Morphology; Compound Adjectives; Compoundcomplex Adjectives;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • R00 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - General - - - General
    • Z0 - Other Special Topics - - General

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:glr:journl:v:2:y:2017:i:1:p:106-113. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: M Imran Khan (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://www.humanityonly.com/ .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.