Ebook: Topics in Kashmiri linguistics

Creative Books, 2002. - 12 p.Grammatical works in Kashmiri began as early as mid of the 19th century with Edgworth (1841) and
Leech (1844) followed by Ishvar Koul’s monumental work Kashmirshabdamritam, written in Sanskrit in 1879, edited by George A Grierson, and published by Royal Asiatic Society of Bengal in 1889. Grierson calls it ‘an excellent grammar of Kashmiri’ and based his quite a few works on this grammar. Grrierson published his Standard manual of Kashmiri language in 1911, and also provides a sketch of Kashmiri grammar in his Linguistic Survey of India, vol. 8, part 2 (1919). Though the tradition of presenting grammatical sketches and descriptions continued till the mid of the 20th century, modern works on the subject commenced from the sixties following the models of grammars prepared in other languages. Kachru provides first detailed grammatical description of Kashmiri in his A Reference Grammar of Kashmiri (1969). His another work An Introduction to Spoken Kashmiri (1973) provides additional notes on Kashmiri grammar and culture. He has also described certain grammatical aspects of the Kashmiri language in his other papers.