32.1796, Diss: Typology: Shahram Gerami: ''Typology of Word Order and Alignment System in Behbahani''

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Date: Mon, 24 May 2021 13:23:04
From: Shahram Gerami [shahramgr21 at gmail.com]
Subject: Typology of Word Order and Alignment System in Behbahani

 
Institution: Allameh Tabataba’i University 
Program: Linguistics 
Dissertation Status: Completed 
Degree Date: 2020 

Author: Shahram Gerami

Dissertation Title: Typology of Word Order and Alignment System in Behbahani 

Dissertation URL:  http://d-lib.atu.ac.ir/faces/search/bibliographic/biblioFullView.jspx?_afPf

Linguistic Field(s): Typology


Dissertation Director(s):
Mohammad Dabir-Moghddam
Mojtaba Monshizade
Golnaz Modaresi-Ghavami

Dissertation Abstract:

Behbahani is a South-Western Iranian language spoken in Behbahan, a city
located in the south east of Khoozestan Province in Iran. This dissertation
investigated the typological status of word order parameters, and the
agreement system in Behbahani within the framework of Dryer (1992), and Comrie
(1978) respectively. Analysis of the data showed that out of twenty four word
order parameters to distinguish OV languages from VO languages, Behbahani is
dominantly of VO type. Also, the agreement system can be classified into two
types: (i) Nominative-Accusative system and (ii) Non-Nominative-Accusative
system.The sentences containing the intransitive verbs as well as the
transitive verbs formed with the present stem manifest a Nominative-Accusative
system in which only S and A are identically expressed as agreement suffixes
in the verb. P can either be realized by nouns and independent personal
pronouns or be cross-referenced by an oblique enclitic. The sentences which
contain transitive verbs formed with the past stems manifest
Non-Nominative-Accusative system which illustrates three possible alignment
types: (i) Tripartite, when P is realized by a noun, a noun phrase or by an
independent personal pronoun and is not crossreferenced by an agreement suffix
or oblique enclitic, (ii) Ergative-Absolutive, when P is not realized by a
noun, a noun phrase or an independent personal pronoun but is cross-referenced
by the verbal agreement suffixes and (iii) Bi-partite or Oblique-Oblique
agreement system, when P and A are both expressed via oblique enclitics. In
regard to agreement system in Behbahani, the following points are worth
noting: (1) S is always cross-referenced by agreement suffixes in the verb,
(2) A is obligatorily cross-referenced with an oblique enclitic in the three
alignment types of Non-Nominative-Accusative system, (3) the inflectional
suffixes representing A or S in Nominative-Accusative system are identical to
the inflectional suffixes exhibiting P in Ergative-Absolutive type, (4) the
oblique enclitics encoding P in Nominative-Accusative system are identical to
the oblique enclitics manifesting A in Non-Nominative-Accusative system and p
in Bi-partite alignment type, (5) In Behbahani agreement system, nouns and
independent personal pronouns have zero case-marking for S, A and P functions,
(6) Behbahani obeys the Wackernagel’s Law.
 Keywords: Behbahani language, word order, agreement system, branching,
direction Theory, alignment system, pronominal clitics




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