Research Article

Morphological Patterns in Eastern Anatolian Domani as a Dialect of Romani

Volume: 6 Number: 3 December 31, 2021
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Morphological Patterns in Eastern Anatolian Domani as a Dialect of Romani

Abstract

This study is aimed at explaining morpho-lexical and morpho-syntactic patterns in Domani, as two basic features that are related to the lexicon and grammar of this substrate, contact, secret and endangered Romani dialect. The study data was obtained by conducting face-to-face interviews with Doms living in the Van and Ağrı-Doğubayazıt regions in Turkey and making use of their oral narratives. The recordings made between 2017 and 2019 are over 10 hours. Kurmanji, which has a typological affinity with Domani, was used as a mediating language in the communicative process. The structures exhibiting significant permeability from Kurmanji to Domani are izafe, ergative case and the auxillary verb kirin ‘to do’, and its combinations. It is understood that the morpho-lexical and morpho-syntactic affixes such as {-xete-}, {-gev}, {-ole} and {–ote}, which are seen as belonging to Domani, lose their functionality and continue to exist as redundant structures. On the other hand, case markers {-gi} and {-ge} and in predicative domains {-avi(n)} partly maintain their domain of use in Domani. Some derivational morphemes of Turkish, such as {-Iş} and {-CI} are also distinctive in the lexical formation of Domani in the derivation of nevişçi ‘begger’ with the negation prefix of Kurmanji {ne-}. The compositional features in this word should be considered as ‘creative languaging’ for substrate language Domani, that is losing its lexical properties due to contact with superstrate languages.

Keywords

Domani, Romani dialect, Morphology, Multilingualism, Redundancy in language

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APA
Varol, O. (2021). Morphological Patterns in Eastern Anatolian Domani as a Dialect of Romani. Söylem Filoloji Dergisi, 6(3), 937-953. https://doi.org/10.29110/soylemdergi.998643
AMA
1.Varol O. Morphological Patterns in Eastern Anatolian Domani as a Dialect of Romani. Söylem. 2021;6(3):937-953. doi:10.29110/soylemdergi.998643
Chicago
Varol, Orhan. 2021. “Morphological Patterns in Eastern Anatolian Domani As a Dialect of Romani”. Söylem Filoloji Dergisi 6 (3): 937-53. https://doi.org/10.29110/soylemdergi.998643.
EndNote
Varol O (December 1, 2021) Morphological Patterns in Eastern Anatolian Domani as a Dialect of Romani. Söylem Filoloji Dergisi 6 3 937–953.
IEEE
[1]O. Varol, “Morphological Patterns in Eastern Anatolian Domani as a Dialect of Romani”, Söylem, vol. 6, no. 3, pp. 937–953, Dec. 2021, doi: 10.29110/soylemdergi.998643.
ISNAD
Varol, Orhan. “Morphological Patterns in Eastern Anatolian Domani As a Dialect of Romani”. Söylem Filoloji Dergisi 6/3 (December 1, 2021): 937-953. https://doi.org/10.29110/soylemdergi.998643.
JAMA
1.Varol O. Morphological Patterns in Eastern Anatolian Domani as a Dialect of Romani. Söylem. 2021;6:937–953.
MLA
Varol, Orhan. “Morphological Patterns in Eastern Anatolian Domani As a Dialect of Romani”. Söylem Filoloji Dergisi, vol. 6, no. 3, Dec. 2021, pp. 937-53, doi:10.29110/soylemdergi.998643.
Vancouver
1.Orhan Varol. Morphological Patterns in Eastern Anatolian Domani as a Dialect of Romani. Söylem. 2021 Dec. 1;6(3):937-53. doi:10.29110/soylemdergi.998643