24.1472, Diss: Historical Ling/Persian, Iranian: Lenepveu-Hotz: 'Diachronic Study of Persian Verbal System...'

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Date: Mon, 01 Apr 2013 10:43:13
From: AGNES LENEPVEU-HOTZ [agnes.hotz at ac-creteil.fr]
Subject: Diachronic Study of Persian Verbal System (10th-16th Centuries): From a balance to another?

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Institution: École Pratique des Hautes Études 
Program: Histoire, textes et documents 
Dissertation Status: Completed 
Degree Date: 2012 

Author: Agnes Lenepveu-Hotz

Dissertation Title: Diachronic Study of Persian Verbal System (10th-16th
Centuries): From a balance to another? 

Dissertation URL:  http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/index.php?halsid=hk5onb1npactbnp3ta5orosol7

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics

Subject Language(s): Persian, Iranian (pes)

Dissertation Director(s):
Gilbert Lazard
PHILIP HUYSE

Dissertation Abstract:

This work is devoted to the morphological and syntactic changes in the Persian 
verbal system between the 10th and 16th centuries. Ten representative prose 
texts (from various regions and dialects, including Early Judaeo-Persian) have 
shown the following evolutions. The new analytical passive uses various 
auxiliaries before one of them, šudan, 'to become', overcomes (12th century). 
The infinitive and the past participle change jointly: the infinitive in an disappears 
in favour of the short infinitive (kard) when the old past participle kard is replaced 
by the karda participle (13th-14th centuries). The Middle-Persian adverb hamē is 
grammaticalized in prefix mē- and its principal value of concomitance has 
gradually weakened. The suffix -ē, marker of the past habitual and the 
counterfactual, declined in favour of mē- (15th century). Gradually the perfect 
has also been used to express the evidential. The periphrastic future, formed 
with xwāstan, 'to want', at first marks an intention-based future, then also 
expresses a prediction-based future (14th century). Although the system is 
unravelling at the 15th century, the prefix bi- is a marker of rhematicity 
throughout the period and the opposition indicative/subjunctive is not yet 
recreated. buvad, 'is', is replaced by bāšad; at the times when they coexist 
(10th-11th centuries), buvad marks the inherent and bāšad, the transient. As for 
the construction of modal verbs, it went from a governed infinitive to a governed 
finite verb, whose morphology is richer (14th-16th centuries). As a result, without 
crystallizing all the changes, the 15th century is a milestone in the evolution of 
Persian verbal system.

Key-words: diachronic linguistics – New Persian – Early Judaeo-Persian – 
verbal system – tense-aspect-mood (TAM)

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