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A Study of Demonstrative Determiners in Pashto Language ...
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Abstract:
The existence of determiner phrase and its different manifestations in number, gender, and case have been studied and proved in the English language in many research studies. Many languages other than English need this investigation in order to establish a sound hypothesis about the universal language structure. This study was an attempt to find out the structure of the determiner phrase in the Pashto language. It also investigated the equivalents of the English determiner phrase in the Pashto language. It used the spoken corpus of Pashto as primary data. In addition, short stories and novels written by literary writers in the Pashto language have been used as secondary data. Moreover, intensive group discussion with native speakers of the Pashto language has also been utilized as another secondary data source. The minimalist program was used to guide and understand syntactic structure of languages. It was followed by determiner phrase hypothesis. The hypothesis states that a noun is headed by its determiner ...
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Keyword:
The Pashto and English Determiners, The Determiner Phrase, Syntax, The Pashto Language, Determiner Phrase Hypothesis, Phrase Structure
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URL: https://zenodo.org/record/5042164
https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5042164
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