Verbal Inflection in Kurdish: A Construction Morphology Approach

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1 Ph.D. Student of Linguistics, Department of Linguistics, Faculty of Literature, Alzahra University, Tehran, Iran.

2 Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics, Faculty of Literature, Alzahra University, Tehran, Iran

Abstract

As one of the most important and also the most challenging processes in morphology field, inflection has been under scrutiny from different points of view. Construction Morphology (CM) as one of the subsequent approaches in morphology with a structural perspective attempts to establish a systematic relationship between form and meaning and in this regard it introduces a means to analyze miscellaneous morphological processes, including inflection. The present study depicts the inflectional forms of verb in Sanandaji dialect of Kurdish in the Construction Morphology framework based on data taken from 1000 sentences, including 100 simple Sanandaji Kurdish verbs compiled by authors. What this paper copes with is the inflectional constructions analysis of simple verb in Kurdish using the constructional schemas. As a result, it is indicated in some cases by which there is no common basis between present and past stem of the verb, second-order schemas are capable of establishing such relationship properly.

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