In this work, the Authors provide a detailed analysis of the Pashto Simple “Naked” Verbs, i.e. all not suffixed simple verbs, and the linguistic dynamics at work still nowadays. The classification of used Simple “Naked” Verbs in three main groups (those belonging to the “norm”; those whose position is changing and can be located in a “zone frontière”; those showing a complexification linked to the aspect) will be useful and helpful for Pashto students and scholars, for researchers in the field of Iranian philology and for linguists.

In this work, the Authors provide an analysis of the entire verbal system of Pashto, the language of some 50 million speakers in Afghanistan, Pakistan and diasporas. As an Iranian language, Pashto verbs share some main behaviours with the other sister languages, as Persian and Kurdish, but with some peculiarities. This study will permit to fully understand Pashto verbal system from the syntactic and morphologic points of view, at the same time offering complete dialectological, typological and lexicographical information, as well as ample phraseologies.