Pārsīg Language (The so-called Pahlavi) Parts of Speech, Word Formation, and Phonology

Raham Asha, Pārsīg Language (The so-called Pahlavi) Parts of Speech, Word Formation, and Phonology, Tehran, Sade, 2017, ISBN 978-600-98270-1-5.

Acknowledgments

The present book is, in the first place, a descriptive grammar of the Pārsīg language as far as we have it. It includes morphology and phonology; but it gives no syntax. Whereas the first two parts of the book concern morphology, the last deals with phonology. The book intends to be accessible to those who wish to study the Pārsīg texts as well as those specialising in the study of Perso-Aryan languages –they can start reading from the third part.

This book has evolved in the course of many years; however, it is not a new and improved edition of my previous book on the Pārsīg language^[1], but a renewed attempt in its own right. A forthcoming compendious dictionary will complete this work.

The great contribution to this book was made by two friends: Bozorgmehr Loghman and Mazda Tajbakhsh. As I am now working on another subject, they kindly accepted the task of reviewing, proof-reading, correcting the final version, and preparing the index. I am profoundly grateful to them.

Raham Asha

frazaft ped drūd ud šādīh

rōz ī mihr māh ī fravardīn sāl ēk hazār ud sisad ud aštād ud haft yazdegirdīg (A.D. 2017, April 28), ped rōstāg ī arrou.

[1] . The Persic (« Pahlavi »). A Grammatical Précis, Paris, 1998.

Contents

Part I     1-192

Parts of Speech

1  The Substantive

2  The Adjective

1. 1. 1. The adjective
      2. The comparison

3  The Pronoun

1. 1. 1. Personal pronouns
      2. Demonstrative pronouns
      3. Other pronouns

4  The Numerals

1. 1. 1. Cardinals
      2. Ordinals
      3. Fractionals
      4. Multiplicatives
      5. Distributives
      6. Operations

5  The Verb

1. 1. 1. Verbal Stem Formation
      2. Verb inflection
      3. The dual formation of the verb
      4. Nominal forms of verbs
      5. Complex verbs
      6. Verbal particles
      7. Negations

6  Other parts of speech

1. 1. 1. Adverbs
      2. Adpositions
      3. Conjunctions
      4. Interjections and direct addresses

Part II     193-274

Word Formation

1. 1. Affixation
   2. Composition
   3. Complex derivatives

Part III     275-450

Phonology

1. 1. Introductory remarks
   2. Vocalism
   3. Consonantism

Index     450-524

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زبانِ پارسیگ (پهلوی): دستورِ زبان، واژه‌سازی و واج‌شناسی