DOI:10.30842/alp23065737191193229
Lyavdanskiy A. K. Serialnyye konstruktsii
s glagolom parək I v urmiyskikh novoarameyskikh idiomakh. Acta
Linguistica Petropolitana. 2023. 19(1): 193–229.
On the basis of field and corpus data, preliminary observations
are made about the form and function of serial verb constructions
(SVC) in the varieties of Christian Urmi Neo-Aramaic. Serial verb
constructions are considered adopting “wide” understanding of this
phenomenon, represented by the works of Plungyan, Aikhenvald and
Andrason among many others. Big amount of data was collected in the
literary corpus of Soviet texts in Christian Urmi. It was
supplemented by the fieldwork in the village of Urmia in
Krasnodarsky Kray. The preliminary overall picture of the use of
SVC in Christian Urmi shows that this language does not belong
neither to most productively serializing languages, nor to the
languages with the lowest rate of verbal serialization. Relative
frequency of SVC in Christian Urmi may be accounted for by the
influence of the adstrate Azerbaijani (Azery) Turkish: its
CONVERB+V-constractions, widely known in many other Turkic
languages, may have been calqued by morphosyntactically related
(following Shluinsky 2014) serial verb constructions in Christian
Urmi Neo-Aramaic. Further research needs to be done taking into
account the history of SVC in the older strata of Aramaic.
As a case study, the article analyzes serial constructions with
the verb parək I, in which it operates either as a
semantic modifier or as a lexical verb. One of the problems
affecting the analysis of the examples is homonymy between the
verbs parək I and parək II in the Present tense
(qatəl). In some cases this may be resolved by the
presence of the pronominal object marker which could be attached
only to strictly transitive parək II. In its role of a
semantic modifier, the verb parək I functions as an
aspectual completive or perfective marker. The SVC with the verb
parək I are relatively infrequent. This fact and the full-fledge
usage of parək I as a lexical verb outside SVC does not
allow to conclude that the verb parək I within SVC is to
be considered as fully grammaticalized aspectual marker.
Keywords
Neo-Aramaic languages, Semitic languages,
serial verb construction, language contact
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