Elements of a Grammar of Kashkay PDF Download

Author: Sohrab Dolatkhah
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Languages : en
Pages : 750

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This work is the first descriptive grammar of Kashkay, in its Amaleh variety, a Turkic language of the Oghuz branch spoken in Iran, primarily in the province of Fars. It is based on data collected by the author during several field trips conducted among the Kashkay. As a native speaker of this language, the author himself has provided many examples. The dissertation consists of an introduction, the grammar, a corpus of texts, and appendices. The introduction provides information about different aspects of the Kashkay community. It gives also an account of the current status of the Kashkay language. The grammar, composed of sixteen chapters, follows a traditional layout. It starts with the phonology, continues with word classes and main topics of morphology; then it deals with the main usual chapters of the syntax. The corpus, selected from a large body of data, comprises various types of the Kashkay oral literature. It contains also interviews, which represent the spoken Kashkay of everyday life among Amaleh speakers. The transcribed texts are provided with an English translation. The appendix includes a fully glossed text, a glossary of Kashkay words with their French and English meanings, several tables representing morphophonologic features of Kashkay suffixes, a list of suffixes, and a bibliography of cited and consulted works.