Schmidt Ruth Laila, Kohistani Razwal. A grammar of the Shina language of Indus Kohistan

In Collaboration with Mohammad Manzar Zarin. — Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2008. — 264 p. — (Beiträge zur Kenntnis südasiatischer Sprachen und Literaturen 17).The Shina language is a Dardic speech spoken in the mountainousregions of the upper Indus River and its tributaries in Pakistan and India, an area which extends more than eight hundred kilometers from east to west and three hundred kilometers from north to south - an area larger than Norway. It is divided into three major dialects: the Gilgiti, Kohistani and Astori. Until now, only the Gilgiti dialect has received the attention of scholars; this work is the only grammar of the Kohistani dialect, as well as the First modern grammar of any Shina dialect.The Geographic and Historical Setting
The Sound System
Nouns and Postpositions
Pronouns and Deixis
Adjectives
Verbs
Adverbs, Participles and Verbal Nouns
Compound Verbs
Conjunctions