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The study of markedness hierarchies in nominal and pronominal morphology of modern north-western Iranian languages

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    • Mohammad Rasekh Mahand 1
    • Masoud Mohammadirad 2

    1 Associate professor of General Linguistics, Bu-Ali Sina University

    2 PhD student in General Linguistics, Bu-Ali Sina University

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Document Type : Research original ,Regular Article

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Abstract

This paper aims to investigate markedness in nominal and pronominal morphology of modern north-western Iranian languages from a diachronic perspective based on Hawkinʼs (2004) minimized forms principle. Based on this principle marked forms ocuupy the lowest and unmarked forms the highest position in performance-based hierarchies. Forms are ranked based on their frecuency in performance-based hierarchies. The reason that there exist these different frecuensies can be attributed to communicative reasons, complixity and different occurances of linguistic units in outside world. In this paper, we have shown that markedness changes in number and gender hierarchies are in line with minimized forms principle and its predictions in the investigated languages, but there are some exceptions in case hierarchy, which is not in line minimized forms predictions.

Keywords

  • number
  • case
  • grammatical gender
  • minimized forms principle
  • morphological inventory prediction
  • declining distinctions prediction
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Language Studies
Volume 6, Issue 11 - Serial Number 11
June 2015
Pages 79-112
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  • Receive Date: 19 May 2015
  • Revise Date: 16 June 2015
  • Accept Date: 07 June 2015
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APA

Rasekh Mahand, M. and Mohammadirad, M. (2015). The study of markedness hierarchies in nominal and pronominal morphology of modern north-western Iranian languages. Language Studies, 6(11), 79-112. doi: .

MLA

Rasekh Mahand, M. , and Mohammadirad, M. . "The study of markedness hierarchies in nominal and pronominal morphology of modern north-western Iranian languages", Language Studies, 6, 11, 2015, 79-112. doi: .

HARVARD

Rasekh Mahand, M., Mohammadirad, M. (2015). 'The study of markedness hierarchies in nominal and pronominal morphology of modern north-western Iranian languages', Language Studies, 6(11), pp. 79-112. doi: .

CHICAGO

M. Rasekh Mahand and M. Mohammadirad, "The study of markedness hierarchies in nominal and pronominal morphology of modern north-western Iranian languages," Language Studies, 6 11 (2015): 79-112, doi: .

VANCOUVER

Rasekh Mahand, M., Mohammadirad, M. The study of markedness hierarchies in nominal and pronominal morphology of modern north-western Iranian languages. Language Studies, 2015; 6(11): 79-112. doi: .

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