Borrowing from an unrelated language in support of intragenetic tendencies
The case of the conditional clitic =sa in Udi
Udi is a Nakh-Daghestanian (Lezgic) language spoken in northern Azerbaijan, which has undergone many
contact-induced changes due to the influence of unrelated languages of the eastern Caucasus (Indo-European, Turkic). A recent
change is the borrowing of the conditional enclitic =sa from Azerbaijani (Turkic). In Udi, this marker can
combine with finite indicative tenses, resulting in a series of derived ‘realis’ conditional mood forms. The clitic is also used
to create an indefiniteness marker, which derives indefinite pronouns from interrogative ones. Prior to the borrowing of the
Azerbaijani morpheme there was no comparable marker in Udi available to fulfil these functions, while other Lezgic languages
employ their own native grammatical means for the same functions (conditional clitics or auxiliaries). The acquisition of the
borrowed clitic has thus made Udi more and not less structurally isomorphic with respect to the other languages of the Lezgic
branch. This paper develops a description of functions related to the domain of conditional mood on various stages of the history
of Udi, and suggests a diachronic scenario for the borrowing of the Azerbaijani marker =sa.
Keywords: language contact, contact-induced change, clitic borrowing, matter borrowing, conditional mood, indefinite pronouns, Udi, Nakh-Daghestanian, Azerbaijani, Turkic
Published online: 17 September 2019
https://doi.org/10.1075/dia.18019.mai
https://doi.org/10.1075/dia.18019.mai
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