FULL AND PARTIAL REDUPLICATIONS IN VARIOUS CATEGORIES OF PASHTO

Abstract

Pashto is an Indo-Iranian language spoken in Pakistan and Afghanistan. It has been the focus of many research studies that revealed its various interesting features. It has been observed that Pashto language has gone through several phases of development, and there is a need to find its various hidden patterns. Therefore, the present article explores various types of reduplication in the Yousafzai dialect. The study aims to investigate the reduplication having the combination of various categories in the Yousafzai dialect. For doing this, the researchers collected the data from the conversations of native speakers. The meanings of all collected words were confirmed later in dictionaries and books. The present study is qualitative in its nature. Researchers have discovered full and partial reduplication in this dialect. The study results showed that full and partial types of reduplication are found in Pashto language. The following categories were found in Yousafzai dialect: reduplication having noun and noun occurrences create adjective, one type of reduplication having noun and noun repetition remains noun, another type of noun and noun reduplication creates adjective, verb and verb repetitions create verb, noun and noun reduplication with infix (a) create adverb, adjective and adjective repetitions create adjective, noun and noun create a noun, adjective and adjective reduplication with consonantal change (w) creates adjective, and noun and noun with consonantal change also create an adjective.