Compounding in Pashto: An Analysis of Compound and Compound- Complex Adjectives
Journal Title: Global Language Review - Year 2017, Vol 2, Issue 1
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.
Authors and Affiliations
Akbar Ali, Muhammad Yasir Khan, Bilal Khan
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- DOI 10.31703/glr.2017(II-I).08
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