Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 December 2009
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.
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”.