American Research Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences

Kashmiri, a North-western language (Dardic) of Indo-Aryan family, contains lexicon of tatsam , tadbhav and deshaj (indigenous) words. The investigation of the root forms reveal that most of the verbs are intransitive at base. Hence, most of the verb roots end up being listed as intransitives, if one were to make reference to solely morphology in decisions concerning what constitutes the base form of a Kashmiri verb. The present paper argues that morphology can’t be the reliable basis to decide on the verb classification. Hence, it is imperative to investigate the semantico-syntactic behaviour of verbs and classify them accordingly. This paper provides an account of semantico-syntactic classification of Kashmiri verbs using the framework of Levin & Rappaport (1995) and focuses to capture the relationship between syntax and semantics of Kashmiri verbs.