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Bailey, T. Graham. 1924. Grammar of the Shina (S.in.â) Language, consisting of a full grammar, with texts and vocabularies of the main or Gilgiti dialect and briefer grammars (with vocabularies and texts) of the Kohistani, Guresi and Drasi dialects. London

Hook, Peter. 1990. “A Note on Expressions of Involuntary Experience in the Shina of Skardu.” Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 53:77-82

Hook, Peter. 1996. “Kesar of Layul: A Central Asian Epic in the Shina of Gultari.” William Hanaway and Wilma Heston, eds. Studies in the Popular Cultures of Pakistan. Lahore: Sang-e-Meel. 121-83

Hook, Peter. 1997. “Relative Clauses in Eastern Shina.” Peter Michalove, Iren Hegedu, Alexis Manaster-Ramer, eds. Festschrift for Vitaly Shevoroshkin. Journal of Indo-European Studies Monograph Series. Washington: Institute for the Study of Man. 140-54

Kohistani, Razwal & Ruth Laila Schmidt. 1994. A Sociolinguistic Description of the Shina Language of Kohistan. Report to the Himalayan Jungle Project. Islamabad: Palas

Kohistani, Razwal & Ruth Laila Schmidt. 1999. Shina Proverbs. Rawalpindi: Shina Research Forum Karakorum

Schmidt, Ruth Laila & M.M. Zarin. 1981. “The phonology and tonal system of Palas /kohis’tyo~/ Shina.” Münchner Studien zur Sprachwissenschaft 40. 155-85

Schmidt, Ruth Laila. 1984. “The Shina speakers of Pakistan and India.” R.V. Weekes (ed.). Muslim Peoples: A World Ethnographic Survey. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press. 678-84

Schmidt, Ruth Laila. 1985. “Morphological criteria for distinguishing categories of transitivity in Shina.” Arlene R.K. Zide et al. (eds.). Proceedings of the Conference on Participant Roles: South Asia and Adjacent Areas. Bloomington: Indiana State University Linguistics Club. 33-46

Schmidt, Ruth Laila. 1985. “Where have the Shina speakers come from? Some linguistic clues.” A.H. Dani (ed.). Papers Presented at the International Conference on Karakoram Culture at Gilgit, 3/1 (A revised version presented at Aarhus University, November, 1998 is available on request from the author).

Schmidt, Ruth Laila. 2000. “Typology of Shina Pronouns.” Berliner Indologische Studien 13/14. 201-13

Schmidt, Ruth Laila. 2001. “A grammatical comparison of the Kohistani, Guresi and Gilgiti dialects of Shina.” Paper presented at the 7th Himalayan Languages Symposium, Uppsala University, Sweden, 7-9 September, 2001

Schmidt, Ruth Laila. in press. “Compound tenses in the Shina of Indus Kohistan.” Dirk W. Lönne (ed.). Festschrift Helmut Nespital. Reinbek: Wezler. 19pp.

Schmidt, Ruth Laila & Razwal Kohistani.. 1998. “Paalus /kostyó~/ Shina revisited.” Acta Orientalia 59. 106-49

Schmidt, Ruth Laila & Razwal Kohistani. in press. “Nominal inflections in the Shina of Indus Kohistan.” To appear in Acta Orientalia 62 (2001). 36pp.

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