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Advances in Iranian Linguistics IIEdited by Simin Karimi, Narges Nematollahi, Roya Kabiri and Jian Gang Ngui
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 361] 2023
► pp. 210–230
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.