Morphological causative verb in Iranian languages & dialects (Old Present Causer affix in some of new Iranian dialects)

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Ph.D. Department of Ancient Iranian Languages, Research Institute of Linguistics, Institute for Humanities and Cultural Studies, Tehran, I. R. Iran

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The present article deals with the Morphological causative verb by adding Present Causer Morpheme -ǣːn- to the present stem of verb in Kurdish, Tati, Taleshi Zazaki, Awroman and Baluchi Dialects. Historically, in Middle Iranian period this suffix used in Causative verb Construction. In this article we show that Causer suffix -ǣːn- (OIr. *aja-na-) which Composes Causative present stem as Morpheme by adding to Present stem in middle western Iranian has been survived in Kurdish and Baluchi Dialects as -ǣːn- and compose Causative present stem by adding to the present stem of intransitive verb. The research data in this article has been gathered by interviews with mentioned dialects native Informants. Moreover, the author is the Informant of one of the dialects and also some written sources have been used. At first data extracted from written sources and dialogues of Informants and then analyzed. In this article the origin of the Causer affix -ǣːn- in the studied dialects was determined, and also it was found that the old Causer affix -ǣːn- has been survived in Kurdish and Baluchi Dialects.

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Linguistic Studies: Theory and Practice
Volume 2, Issue 2 - Serial Number 4
Winter 2024
March 2024
Pages 79-103

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  • Receive Date: 26 November 2023
  • Revise Date: 20 January 2024
  • Accept Date: 28 January 2024

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