Non-canonical Subject Construction in the Zoroastrian Language of Yazd

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Linguistics Department, Faculty of Persian Literature and Foreign Languages, Allameh Tabataba'i University, Tehran, Iran

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This study revolves around the non-canonical subject construction in the language of the Zoroastrian minority, also known as Behdinan, in Yazd and concentrates on the grammaticalization of this construction, the predicates used therein and the semantic parameters involved in it. This research further aims to help pave the way for comparison of the development, alteration and deletion of such syntactic constructions in Behdinani and other Iranian languages in the long run. Adopting a typological approach, this study heavily draws on the findings of Dabir-Moghaddam (2018) and Dabir-Moghaddam (1399), which pore into the oblique subject construction in Old and Modern Persian. It finds non-canonical subjects in Behdinani used along with sensory, psychological and possessive predicates among others as in Modern Persian, but unlike its counterpart, Behdinani relies on proclitics to mark oblique subjects, and goes as far as using the same with intransitive verbs, which normally agree with their subjects through suffixes regardless of the tense.

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Language and Linguistics
Volume 19, Issue 38
September 2024

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