Golnaz Modarresi Ghavami; Mohammad Dabir-Moghaddam; Mohsen Heidarizadi
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Linguistic typology is the systematic study of linguistic variation and word order is one of its main topics. In this paper, word order components are studied in the varieties of Kurdish, Laki, and Luri languages spoken in Chardawol, a geographical region located in the north of Ilam province in Iran. ...
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Linguistic typology is the systematic study of linguistic variation and word order is one of its main topics. In this paper, word order components are studied in the varieties of Kurdish, Laki, and Luri languages spoken in Chardawol, a geographical region located in the north of Ilam province in Iran. For this purpose, the 24 components used in Dabir-Moghaddam (1392) to determine word order status in languages were employed and examples were provided for each component for the 3 varieties in this study. Results showed a high degree of convergence between the 3 language varieties in the geographical region of Chardawol, which is itself a manifestation of 'regional typology'. A comparison of word order components in the 3 varieties with the languages of Europe-Asia showed that all 3 mainly behave as strong verb-medial languages (with 17 components out of 24). Verb-medial status of these languages was also confirmed in a comparison with world languages (19 components out of 24).
Tayyebe Ghasemi; Ameneh Zare; Mohammad Hossein Sharafzadeh
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A Linguistic typology is a field of linguistics that studies the systematic similarities and differences between the different languages of the world and compares the morphological and syntactic structures between different languages without considering their background. The present study, ...
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A Linguistic typology is a field of linguistics that studies the systematic similarities and differences between the different languages of the world and compares the morphological and syntactic structures between different languages without considering their background. The present study, in the framework of Dryer article (1992), examined the order of words in the Kholosi language. The method of data collection was through recording the answers of informants to the questionnaire that was prepared in this regard and interviewing them. The results showed that Kholosi in comparison with the Eurasia languages, by having 14 verb-final criteria and 14 verb-medial criteria have a balance between the criteria and in comparison with the languages of the world, by having 15 verb-final criteria and 17 verb-medial criteria, like Persian language, shows a tendency towards the verb-medial group. Considering the values of the criteria in both groups of languages, we find that Kholosi has undergone fewer changes in terms of word order compared to Persian language.
Mohammad Dabir Moghaddam; Mahroo Abdollahi
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In word order typology, different languages are studied with respect to the order and sequence of their constituents and the classification and comparison of languages is carried out based on these orders. The present study describes word order in Baboli dialect in the framework of Dryer (1992). Data ...
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In word order typology, different languages are studied with respect to the order and sequence of their constituents and the classification and comparison of languages is carried out based on these orders. The present study describes word order in Baboli dialect in the framework of Dryer (1992). Data collection was done by both recording the answers provided by 10 local informants, 5 city dwellers, and 5 villagers to the questionnaire prepared for the present study and interviewing the aforementioned informants. The results indicated that compared with languages in its own geographical area (i.e. Eurasia), Baboli keeps a balance between the number of verb-medial (VO) and verb-final (OV) criteria, having 17 of each. In comparison with the languages of the world, though, Baboli has 16 criteria relevant to verb-final languages and 15 criteria relevant to verb-medial languages, showing a slight tendency towards verb-final languages. These results differ from those of contemporary Persian whose dominant tendency is towards verb-medial (VO) languages in comparison with both Eurasia languages- 12 criteria relevant to verb-final languages and 17 criteria relevant to verb-medial languages- and world languages- 15 criteria relevant to verb-final languages and 19 criteria relevant to verb-medial languages.
