CONTEMPORARY STANDARD SINDHI: A TRANSFORMATIONAL - GENERATIVE SKETCH

Sindhi a North-Western group of New Indo Aryan languages is spoken in Pakistan & India. Its a recognized official language in both countries. A modified Arabic alongwith Devanagari script is used for writing Sindhi The thesis is a syntactic analysis of Contemporary Standard Sindhi.Phonology and Morphology have been treated in a sketch form through the section on Verb Inflection but its complicated verbal system has been treated exhaustively The analysis of syntax takes up aspects of Sindhi Sentence Structure.The author does not claim to have dealt with it exhaustively,hence the subtitle-A Transformational Generative Sketch The data represents standard Sindhi as spoken in everyday contexts at normal tempo in India The difference between colloquial and literary Sindhi is lexical The approach is Data rather than Model oriented an attempt has been made to present the various peculiarities of the language.Broadly a modified Generative and Transformational presentation is used.