A Grammar of Pashto: A Descriptive Study of the Dialect of Kandahar, Afghanistan

action added adjective Afghan grammarians alternation appear Arabic become clusters colloquial combine complete compound consonant contrasts derived dialect direct direct plural Eastern ending Examples express feminine final formation gender imperative imperfective indicate inflectional initial IV-A Kabul Kandahar koor language listed loud loud-stressed masc masculine meaning morphemes nominal forms nominal phrases Note oblique oblique plural occur optative participle particles Pashto passive past stem perfect Persian person phoneme plural forms position prefix pres present present II pron pronominal pronouns province refer sing singular sometimes sound speakers speech spirant stop stress substantives suffix symbol tense third person tied tive transitive tshi usually utterances variation verb verbal vocative voiced vowel weak-stressed women written