Two micro-areal developments in northwestern South Asia: Causative involuntatives and causee marking postpositions

Elena Bashir

doi:10.1515/jsall-2015-0002

Two micro-areal developments in northwestern South Asia: Causative involuntatives and causee marking postpositions

Journal of South Asian Languages and Linguistics ◽

10.1515/jsall-2015-0002 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 2 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Elena Bashir

Keyword(s):

South Asia ◽

Himalayan Foothills ◽

Verb Forms ◽

Hindu Kush

AbstractThis paper focuses on two language clusters in the region comprising the Hindu Kush mountains; Swat, Dir and Indus Kohistan (Pakistan); and the Himalayan foothills (HKKH region). The languages considered are Kalasha, Khowar, Palula, Dameli, Torwali, Kohistani, Shina, Kashmiri, Pashai and some of the Nuristani languages. One cluster of languages shares the expression of non-volitional semantics by derived transitive/causative verb forms, previously discussed as “causative involuntatives” or “impersonal causative expressions”. Two apparent subtypes are identified and mapped. A second, partially overlapping, cluster shares the use of a grammaticized conjunctive participle of a causative form of a reflex of the OIA √

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Food, water, and energy security in South Asia: A nexus perspective from the Hindu Kush Himalayan region☆

Environmental Science & Policy ◽

10.1016/j.envsci.2014.01.010 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 39 ◽

pp. 35-48 ◽

Cited By ~ 234

Author(s):

Golam Rasul

Keyword(s):

South Asia ◽

Energy Security ◽

Himalayan Region ◽

Hindu Kush

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Conquering and Ruling Premodern Afghanistan

Afghanistan ◽

10.23943/princeton/9780691145686.003.0003 ◽

2010 ◽

Author(s):

Thomas Barfield

Keyword(s):

South Asia ◽

Fracture Zone ◽

Political Authority ◽

The West ◽

The North ◽

Nation States ◽

Hindu Kush ◽

Relationship Of ◽

The Relationship ◽

North And South

This chapter examines Afghanistan's premodern patterns of political authority and the groups that wielded it. During this period nation-states did not exist and regions found themselves as parts of various empires. During its premodern history, the territory of today's Afghanistan was conquered and ruled by foreign invaders. Located on a fracture zone linking Iran in the west, central Asia in the north, and south Asia in the east, it was the route of choice for armies moving across the Hindu Kush (or south of it) toward the plains of India. For the same reason, empires based in India saw the domination of this region as their first line of defense. This chapter focuses on how (and what kinds of) territory was conquered, how conquerors legitimated their rule, and the relationship of such states with peoples at their margins.

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