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The Forms and Nature of the Transitive Verb in Shina (Gilgiti Dialect)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 December 2009

D. L. R. Lorimer
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1. The following article has grown out of notes made in response to a request from Sir George Grierson for the paradigm of a Shina () transitive verb with a root ending in a consonant, and in reply to a suggestion made by him that the construction with the trs. vb. is agential, i.e. that the ostensibly active trs. vb. is in fact passive, or was originally so.

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies , Volume 3 , Issue 3 , June 1924 , pp. 467 - 493
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Copyright © School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London 1924

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1 I understand that the sign: is now used for “very long”. There are few, if any, consistently very long vowels in Shina, and many marked: in this article are perhaps scarcely to be described even as “long”.