Preservation of an ancient passive maker in Kurdish language

جستارهای نوین ادبی

Article 9, Volume 41, Issue 1 - Serial Number 160, April 2009, Pages 137-147   

Document Type: Research Article

DOI: 10.22067/jls.v41i2.13204

Abstract

The existence of passive makers in Kurdish language, similar to that of ancient Iranian languages can be very helpful in linguistic studies, language change and finding the nature of passive structures in modern Iranian languages such as Persian. The writers of this article have found a passive maker in Kurdish language and its dialects such as Sorani, Ardalani, Kalhori, Ilami and Horami that like ancient Iranian languages is added to the verb root to form passive structures. This morpheme in Kurdish language appears as /ya/ and /ya^/ which is similar to /ya/ in ancient Iranian languages.