Abstract
Abstract In his Manual of the Kashmiri Language, 1911, vol. I §§ 97–99 G. A. Grierson called attention to the remarkable rules of word order in Kashmiri: in a main sentence the sentence verb does not come at the end as in the other Indo-Aryan languages (in Grierson's words: “the order more nearly approaches that of English”, e.g. tam prōw sĕthāh vidyā “by-him was-acquired much knowledge”. But in a subordinate sentence the verb comes last, e.g. yot-tām zinda rōza, tamis kara ādar “as-long-as living I-shall-remain, to-him I-shall-do honour”.
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