The Monostemmatic Inflectional System in the Talysh Language

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1 Professor of Persian Language and Literature, University of Guilan, Rasht, Iran

2 Masters Student of Persian Language and Literature at Univercity of Guilan, Rasht, Iran

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As a modern Northwestern Iranian language, Talysh spreads along the southwestern shore of the Caspian Sea, from the Sefid-rud river in Guilan to the Kor River in the Republic of Azerbaijan. The present article addresses some of the unique verbal features of this language, including the incorporation of the past stem in the formation of the imperative verb and the present indicative, especially the usage of single and shared stems in verb conjugation. Informed by an ancient Persian translation of the Quran, called The Shonqoshi Exegesis, the study at hand formulates a “monostemmatic” feature to investigate the etymology and history of the so-called “Bon-Basend” compound. It also explains the ambiguities regarding the second part of this compound, namely the verb stem “Basend,” in terms of stem type and usage in the Talysh language. The etymological analysis shows that “Basend” is a present stem, which, in combination, attains an objective meaning and functions as a shared stem (monostemic) in the conjugation of all verbal structures in the Talysh language.

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