Linguistics and Khorasan dialects
Zohreh Sadat Naseri; Parya Razmdideh
Volume 13, Issue 2 , February 2022, , Pages 257-282
Abstract
Clitics are linguistic units that have both some characteristics of words and some of the dependent morphemes. Therefore, identifying and examining them in different languages is one of the most interesting linguistic issues for linguists. Persian language is no exception to this rule. Thus, the aim ...
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Clitics are linguistic units that have both some characteristics of words and some of the dependent morphemes. Therefore, identifying and examining them in different languages is one of the most interesting linguistic issues for linguists. Persian language is no exception to this rule. Thus, the aim of the present study is to determine and describe clitic pronouns in Ghayeni dialect based on Aikhenvald’s criteria (2003). The data have been collected by descriptive-analytical method, using different sources of Ghayeni dialect and recording free speech of 20 native dialects living in Ghayen and also the intuition of one of the authors. Clitic pronouns in this dialect include the object and subject clitics - (d)e, as well as third-person attached pronouns. The results indicate that object clitics refer only to the inanimate singular object and are added to the transitive verb in all persons and tenses when the object is not present. Subject clitics refer to the third person singular verb (mostly animate) and are added to the singular third person verb at all times when the subject is not present. In the case of agreement system, the conjunctive system prevails in this dialect only when it has a passive role in the sentence with the singular third person verb, (d)e-; In this case, it has the same marking as the intransitive verb and a different marking with the transitive verb. Here clitic personal pronouns only include third person pronouns. Clitic pronouns were validated according to Aikhenvald (2003).
Word construction
Parya Razmdideh; Sara Kheyrmand
Volume 12, Issue 2 , December 2020, , Pages 59-98
Abstract
“nɑme”-last complex words have rarely been examined in Persian morphology. In this study, examining the function of “nɑme” in the word-formation of Complex words which is embedded as a shared constituent, the polysemous patterns have been analyzed in the framework of construction ...
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“nɑme”-last complex words have rarely been examined in Persian morphology. In this study, examining the function of “nɑme” in the word-formation of Complex words which is embedded as a shared constituent, the polysemous patterns have been analyzed in the framework of construction morphology (Booij, 2010). To fulfill this purpose, 102 “nɑme”-last complex words have been gathered from 3 Persian dictionaries including Zansoo (1994), Sokhan (2003), and Dehkhoda (1999) which have been classified in 12 extensions of meaning, adopting generalized holistic constructional schema which govern less abstract subschemas as meaning extensions derived from conceptual mechanisms. Achievements depicted that image schemas, metonymy, and metaphor are the chief forces in getting “nɑme”, polysemous in the examined complex words. Additionally, the other possibilities such as bound meaning in terms of constructional idiom, hierarchical lexicon, and default inheritance contributed by construction morphology indicated that “nɑme”-last complex words are governed by the so-called constructional idiom as a kind of constructional schema in which a fixed lexical unit with bound meaning is embedded. This justifies how “nɑme” is positioned in the fuzzy boundary between compounding and derivation as a “affixoid” which is grammaticalizing.
