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This thesis analyzes the literary themes of Pashto poetry including landeys (popular verse), Taliban literature (propaganda, poetry and chants), and poetry concerning Pashtunwali (code of honor). This thesis attempts to use poetry as a conceptual apparatus to better understand s…

The purpose of this dissertation is to explore major areas of Pashto syntax. It provides a unified account of agreement and clitics which in constructions such as relative clauses, represent core arguments. Agreement suffixes allow the coreferenced NP to be null in a sentence. O…

In this dissertation I inquire into the ideological and social roots of Pashtun ethno-nationalism in Afghanistan, by analyzing political-economic history; biography; and written and oral Pashto literature. Demands for the proper public realization of Pashtun identity were not un…

Wardak is one variety of the Pashto language. Most of its approximate one million speakers live in Wardak Province, which is just south of the capital city, Kabul, of Afghanistan. While all Wardaks think of themselves as Pashtun, the Wardak speech variety is considered different…