Homophonous -ya in Kurdish: Passive Marking, Imperfective Morphology, and Possible Verbal Origins
Year: 2026
Type: preprint
Abstract: This research note examines the distribution of forms resembling -ya across different morphological environments in Kurdish, with particular attention to passive marking and imperfective morphology in Southern Kurdish. It investigates whether these formally similar forms represent distinct morphological elements or reflect historically related processes of grammaticalization. Possible verbal origins involving hatin (‘come’), hel-hatin, and forms associated with de-/e- and gih/geh are considered as comparative hypotheses rather than established etymologies. By distinguishing morphological function from formal resemblance, the note proposes an approach to Kurdish historical morphology grounded in internal variation and comparative analysis.
Author: X_name
Language: English
Subfield: Language and Linguistics
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7225574895