[Lingtyp] [Ext] "na/nan" in Turkish

[Geoffrey Haig]

Dear Raheleh,

the form you mention is typical for Turkic varieties spoken in Iran, and 
also in dialects spoken in East Anatolia; Bulut (2018: 418) writes:

"Across the region the instrumental case is {+(I)nAn}, ..."

She treats it as a case suffix, though I think it could equally 
plausibly be considered a postposition. It is certainly an original 
Turkic form, rather than any kind of borrowing (in  case you were 
wondering). The use of this form as opposed to the functionally 
equivalent Standard Turkish =Ile 'with (instrument and comitative)' is a 
major isogloss distinguishing the Iran and East Anatolian varieties from 
Standard Turkish.

Bulut, Christiane. 2018. The Turkic varieties of Iran. In: Haig, 
Geoffrey and Geoffrey Khan (eds.) The languages and linguistics of 
Western Asia. An areal perspective, 398-444. Berlin: De Gruyter.

I can send you a pdf of the above paper in an additional message,

best

Geoff



Am 22.10.2020 um 01:48 schrieb Raheleh Izadi Far:
> Dear Lyngtyp members,
>
> Does anybody here have any information about the word "na, nan" in 
> Turkish? I'd be grateful to know about the meaning, functions, and 
> origin of the postposition/suffix "na/nan" in Turkish language of 
> Turkey or Iran, or other places.
> An example of its use in Iranian Turkish is "man ahmadi nangediram" (I 
> go with Ahmad."
>
> All the best,
> Raheleh Izadifar
> PhD in general linguistics, Iran
>
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