Pronominal clitics in Sorani Kurdish: interaction With Perpositions

Subject Areas : Persian Language and Literature

Batool Alinezhad ¹ , Sadiq Mohammadi bolbolan Abad ²

1 - an associate professor at the University of Isfahan linguistic group
2 - learned knowledge - Language PhD - science at the University of Isfahan

Received: 2013-08-02 Accepted : 2014-01-14 Published : 2014-05-22

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Abstract :

The complement of a preposition in Sorani Kurdish dialects can generally be realized either as a syntactic it or a bound personal morpheme (Cliticization). However, the clitic realization of the complement gives rise to a range of specific phenomena. First, Kurdish prepositions display two different forms depending on the realization of their complement: the variant combining with a syntactic item is referred to as ‘simple’, while the variant combining with a clitic is called ‘absolute’. The clitic complement can have a non-local realization, moving in two directions. In a past transitive construction, the clitic moves to the right and occurs on the verb as ‘verbal personal ending’. With verbs in the present tenses, the clitic can attach to the right edge of the constituent that immediately precedes as second position clitics and define VP as the domain of their realization. Klavans P1 is able to characterize it properly.

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