Combinational Complex Predicates in Coastal Baluchi of Chabahar

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1 MA Student of Linguistics, Chabahar Maritime University, Chabahar, Iran.

2 Assistant Professor of Linguistics, Chabahar Maritime University, Chabahar, Iran

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This study investigates combinational compound verbs in Coastal Baluchi, spoken in southern Baluchistan, Iran, focusing on their structure and formation processes. To this end, the target data—compound verbs in Coastal Balochi—were initially extracted from the first volume of the BalochiـPersian Dictionary (Jahandideh, 2017) using the linguistic intuition of one of the authors, a native speaker of Coastal Balochi. The extracted verbs were then alphabetically arranged. Subsequently, 30 native speakers of Coastal Balochi were selected as research participants through purposive sampling. The collected data were verified through interviews by the researcher, during which the native speakers confirmed whether the extracted verbs belonged to the Coastal Balochi dialect. The compound verbs identified as Coastal Balochi were analyzed within the study's theoretical framework and classified based on the lexical category of the nonverbal element. The findings revealed that in Coastal Balochi, the process of combining nonverbal elements such as nouns, adjectives, past participles, adverbs, and prepositional phrases with certain simple verbs leads to the formation of compound verbs. The most prevalent pattern of compound verb formation involves the combination of nouns with simple verbs.

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