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The history of the K-suffix -ū in Shirazi

Nourzaei, Maryam

Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 2023-07, Vol.33 (3), p.589-626 [Periódico revisado por pares]

Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press

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  • Título:
    The history of the K-suffix -ū in Shirazi
  • Autor: Nourzaei, Maryam
  • Assuntos: Anaphora ; Corpus analysis ; Corpus linguistics ; Deixis ; Dialects ; Frequency of occurrence ; Indo-European languages ; Narratives ; Poetry ; Questionnaires ; Reference (Semantic) ; Speech ; Speeches ; Suffixes ; Tracking
  • É parte de: Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 2023-07, Vol.33 (3), p.589-626
  • Descrição: This article investigates the use and frequency of what I refer to as the K-suffixes -ō/-ū/-o in the Shirazi dialects, namely, Old and Modern Shirazi. It shows that the use of K-suffixes as definiteness markers is more highly developed in Modern Shirazi than in Old Shirazi. In Old Shirazi, the K-suffix, with its original evaluative meaning, demonstrated some degree of multi-functionality. This has mostly been lost in Modern Shirazi, and the suffix is now used to express definiteness. The high frequency of use of the K-suffix appears to be independent of genre, speaker, and speech setting. Data from a corpus of written texts in Old Shirazi, mainly comprised of poems, are quantitatively analysed, along with data from a corpus of spoken Shirazi narratives and data from a questionnaire answered by ten speakers. The results show that an evaluative suffix can develop into a definiteness marker by passing through a stage of combination with deictic markers, which paves the way for extending the use of the K-suffix to include non-deictic anaphoric tracking. This article concludes that the development of definiteness marking can proceed down a pathway that is distinct from the one normally assumed for demonstrative-based definiteness marking, even if the endpoint may be similar. The detailed documentation of this process presented here is a further contribution to Iranian studies, and augments the small group of well-documented cases of a non-demonstrative origin of definiteness marking cross-linguistically.
  • Editor: Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press
  • Idioma: Inglês
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