Typology of the word order of the Buddhist Sogdian text “Vesantra Jᾱtaka”( The story of The Buddha’s birth) based on verbal categories

This paper surveys The Typology of the word order of the Buddhist Sogdian text “Vesantra Jᾱtaka” through a descriptive-analytical study. Data have been collected through library method and purposive sampling. All of the available sections of the text have been analyzed in a qualitative and quantitative way. Present article discusses correlation and noncorrelation pairs related to verb among 24 categories discussed in Dabir Moghadam (2012), and 4 categories which Dryer presented (1992). Vesantra Jᾱtaka although had contained 40 chapters only 29 of them had survived and contains 1805 lines, which is the main focus of the present article. This research aims at answering these questions : How much is the Dryer's model applicable to Buddhist sogdian text? Based on verbal pairs, does this language belong to ov language group or vo? How is the word order of Buddhist Sogdian texts? In general, no language totally belongs to VO or OV language likewise, Buddhist Sogdian is not an exception, but it can be said that it has mostly the characteristics of an ov language based on verbal parameters. So, it has a tendency to left branching where the verb as the head occurs at the end of the sentence.