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

Chapter 8
Three types of verb stem levelling in Tat

| Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL) - École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE) - Institut des langues rares (ILARA) | National Institut of Oriental Languages and Civilisations (INALCO)
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.
Keywords: stem, verb morphology, tense-aspect-mood, suppletion, levelling, Azerbaijan, Tat, Juhuri, Iranian
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
    • 1.1Stem opposition
    • 1.2The data
  • 2.Secondary stem derivation
    • 2.1Derivation of secondary Stem 2 in °ir
    • 2.2Derivation of secondary Stem 2 in °ist
  • 3.Stem adjustment
    • 3.1Stem 2 adjustment
    • 3.2Stem 1 adjustment
  • 4.Stem generalisation
  • 5.Discussion
  • 6.Conclusion
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes
  • Abbreviations
  • Bibliography
Published online: 14 April 2023
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