Constructions Containing jɑ- in Laki Dialect

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1 Ph.D. Student of Linguistics, Islamic Azad University, Sanandaj Branch, Sanandaj, Iran

2 - Professor of Linguistics, Department of Linguistics, Faculty of Literature and Humanities, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

3 - Assistant Professor, English Language and Linguistic Department, Sanandaj Branch, Islamic Azad University, Sanandaj, Iran.

4 Assistant Professor, English Language and Linguistic Department, Sanandaj Branch, Islamic Azad University, Sanandaj, Iran

Abstract

The main objective of the current study is to examine the constructions containing jɑ- /-je in Laki within the framework of Goldbergˊs Constructional Grammar on the basis of a descriptive-analytic method. Data was collected in a survey recording the daily speech of speakers aged 50-60 which were finally analyzed based on the theoretical framework of the study as well as the linguistic intuition of one of the authors as a native speaker of the dialect. Findings of the research indicated that when jɑ- /-je constructions come with sentences such as transitive, intransitive, causative, unergative, and unaccusative the participant agent cannot be present as a direct subject and also when this construction comes with intransitive unergative sentences containing agent, it leads to deletion of participant agent syntactically. Thus, this construction does not only occur with two predicate verbs but also comes with one predicate verbs. The study also reveals that although the presence of jɑ- in the sentence leads to deleting the participant agent syntactically, it continues to remain present semantically.
 

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Research in Western Iranian Languages and Dialects
Volume 8, Issue 3 - Serial Number 30
September 2020
Pages 69-90

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