A Short Sketch of Tajik Grammar

Rubbed. Corners bumped. Title inked on spine. Good. Indo-Iranian Linguistics Indiana University Press Bloomington [IN] 1963 orig .wrappers xi, 110 pp,, 25x17cm, Series: Indiana University Research Center in Anthropology, Folklore, & Linguistics, Publication nr. 28. Translated and edited by Herbert H.Paper. Translation of a supplement to the Tajik-Russian dictionary issued by the Institute of Language and Literature of the Academy of Sciences of the Tajik Soviet Socialist Republic, Stalinabad, Moscow, 1954, p. 531-570. Contents: Phonetics: The Sound System; The Writing System; Morphology: Parts of Speech: General Remarks; Substantival Parts of Speech: Nouns & Adjectives; Compounding; Derivation; Methods of Expressing Case Relations; Pronouns; Numerals; The Verb; Voices, Moods, Tenses; Adverbs; Other Form. Classes; Basic Information on Syntax; The Simple Sentence; The Compound Sentence; Conjunctionless Coordination; Complex Sentences: Types of Subordination; Types of Subordinate Clauses; Direct Discourse.