The Turko-Lezgic Voice Paradigm of Yeni Dizaxlı Lezgian

Authors : Matthew ZASLANSKY

Pages : 197-217

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Publication Date : 2023-02-14

Article Type : Research Paper

Abstract :This paper proposes that the morphological contrasts of the Azerbaijani Turkic valency-changing set have been borrowed in the Yeni Dizaxlı village variety of Lezgian—a variant of the Quba macro-dialect insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(Mejlanova 1964: 3);—, a Lezgic language in the East Caucasian family, spoken in the Qəbələ district of Azerbaijan. While the existence of Turkic valency-changing morphology is documented in the Lezgic branch of the family insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(Aslanov 1989; Authier 2010);, I propose here for the first time that contrasts are also borrowed. The relevant valency-changing markers participate in the same contrasts in the same contexts in both Qəbələ Lezgian and in Azerbaijani, though evidence from Standard Lezgian suggests that the native Lezgic markers are not necessarily contrastive in the literary form of the language. Yeni Dizaxlı Lezgian demonstrates the coexistence of borrowed and native voice markers in paradigmatic contrast, i.e. a case of parallel system borrowing insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(Kossman 2010);.
Keywords : morfoloji, dil teması, çatı, Lezgice, Dağıstan dilleri