A Grammar of Modern Standard Balochi

Contents Tables Acknowledgements 1. Introduction 2. Alphabet and phonology 2.1. Alphabets 2.1.1. The Arabic script for Balochi 2.1.2. The Latin script for Balochi 2.2. Vowels 2.3. Consonants 2.4. Syllable patterns 2.5. Stress 2.6. Intonation 3. Noun morphology 3.1. Nouns 3.1.1. Proper and common nouns 3.1.2. Concrete and abstract nouns 3.1.3. Verbal nouns 3.1.4. Countable nouns, singular and plural 3.1.5. Uncountable nouns, singular and plural 3.1.6. Definiteness and indefiniteness 3.1.7. Case forms 3.2. Adjectives and adverbs 3.2.1. Forms of adjectives 3.2.2. Attributive and predicative adjectives 3.2.3. Comparative and superlative 3.2.4. Adjectives as nouns 3.2.5. Adverbs 3.3. Pronouns 3.3.1. Personal pronouns 3.3.2. Demonstratives 3.3.3. Enclitic pronouns 3.3.4. Reflexive pronoun 3.3.5. Interrogative pronouns 3.3.6. Indefinite pronouns 3.4. Adpositions 3.4.1. Prepositions 3.4.2. Postpositions 3.4.3. Circumpositions 3.5. Numerals 4. Verb morphology 4.1. Types of verbs 4.2. Verb stems and non-finite verb forms 4.2.1. Uses of the infinitive 4.2.2. Uses of the present participle 4.2.3. Uses of the past participle 4.2.4. Uses of the agent noun 4.2.5. Uses of the verbal adjective 4.3. Person-marking verb suffixes 4.3.1. Present-future person-marking verb suffixes 4.3.2. Past person-marking verb suffixes 4.3.3. Negations 4.4. Finite verb forms 4.4.1. The copula and the verb of existence 4.4.2. Verb forms based on the present-future stem 4.4.3. Verb forms based on the past stem 4.4.4. Passive voice 4.4.5. Periphrastic constructions 4.4.6. Impersonal verbs (verbs with non-canonical subjects) 4.4.7. Stative-dynamic verbs 5. Syntax 5.1. Constituent order in the phrase 5.2. Constituent order in the clause 5.3. Pronoun dropping 5.4. Nominal clauses 5.5. Coordination 5.6. Subordination 5.6.1. Nominal complement clauses 5.6.2. Relative clauses 5.6.3. Adverbial clauses 6. Word formation 6.1. Word formation with prefixes 6.2. Word formation with suffixes 6.3. Compound words References