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Article Dans Une Revue Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft Année : 2022

Sort of Grammaticalised: New Approximative Morphology in Persian and Azeri

Murad Suleymanov
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This paper presents cases of grammaticalisation leading to the formation of new suffixes in Persian and Azeri. Persian already features the suffix -gune (related to the suffix -gun, cf. gun “colour, type”), whose use in all Persian varieties (Iranian Persian, Dari, Tajik) is a sign of a relatively old grammaticalisation. More recently, the suffix -ṭōr (from ṭour “sort”) has emerged, albeit only in Iranian Persian. In Azeri, the suffix -təhər (from təhər “type”, likewise from ṭour) has been widely acknowledged, and its use predating that of -ṭōr in Persian suggests an independent grammaticalisation. Colloquial Azeri has also seen the emergence of the suffix -fason (from Russian fason, from French façon). The data indicate that all of the above suffixes are adjectival, carrying the meaning “being of the type, of the kind; having the quality of”. We offer a diachronic description of these suffixes and their synchronic analysis in Persian and Azeri.

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hal-03878716 , version 1 (30-11-2022)

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Dorian Pastor, Murad Suleymanov. Sort of Grammaticalised: New Approximative Morphology in Persian and Azeri. Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft, 2022, 173 (2), pp.411-440. ⟨hal-03878716⟩
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