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Chapter 8. Three types of verb stem levelling in Tat

  • Murad Suleymanov
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Advances in Iranian Linguistics II
This chapter is in the book Advances in Iranian Linguistics II

Abstract

This paper explores phenomena affecting to various degrees the historical opposition of two verb stems in Tat, an Iranian language spoken in the Caucasus. Using corpora from a number of Tat varieties collected by different authors throughout the past century and a half as well interviews with modern-day native speakers, I illustrate the gradual blurring of the distinction between the stems resulting from what appears to be a morphological change in progress.

Abstract

This paper explores phenomena affecting to various degrees the historical opposition of two verb stems in Tat, an Iranian language spoken in the Caucasus. Using corpora from a number of Tat varieties collected by different authors throughout the past century and a half as well interviews with modern-day native speakers, I illustrate the gradual blurring of the distinction between the stems resulting from what appears to be a morphological change in progress.

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Introduction 1
  4. Chapter 1. Anaphoric potential of pseudo-incorporated bare objects in Persian 12
  5. Chapter 2. Persian quantifiers and their scope 44
  6. Chapter 3. Why-stripping in Persian 81
  7. Chapter 4. Middle Persian Ezafe 100
  8. Chapter 5. Ezafe and the article 130
  9. Chapter 6. Ezafe as a linking feature within DP 154
  10. Chapter 7. Mood selection in complement clauses in Persian 180
  11. Chapter 8. Three types of verb stem levelling in Tat 210
  12. Chapter 9. A null stem analysis of Persian copular verbs 231
  13. Chapter 10. Semi-anticausatives 263
  14. Chapter 11. The nature and licensing of hi:tʃ elements in Persian 282
  15. Language index 307
  16. Name index 309
  17. Subject index 313
https://doi.org/10.1075/cilt.361.08sul

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Introduction 1
  4. Chapter 1. Anaphoric potential of pseudo-incorporated bare objects in Persian 12
  5. Chapter 2. Persian quantifiers and their scope 44
  6. Chapter 3. Why-stripping in Persian 81
  7. Chapter 4. Middle Persian Ezafe 100
  8. Chapter 5. Ezafe and the article 130
  9. Chapter 6. Ezafe as a linking feature within DP 154
  10. Chapter 7. Mood selection in complement clauses in Persian 180
  11. Chapter 8. Three types of verb stem levelling in Tat 210
  12. Chapter 9. A null stem analysis of Persian copular verbs 231
  13. Chapter 10. Semi-anticausatives 263
  14. Chapter 11. The nature and licensing of hi:tʃ elements in Persian 282
  15. Language index 307
  16. Name index 309
  17. Subject index 313
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