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DOI: 10.46698/VNC.2021.13.6.003

ON THE EPITHESIS -T- IN THE PLURAL FORMS OF OSSETIAN NOUNS

Gutieva, Elmira T.
Kavkaz Forum. 2021. Issue 6.
Abstract:
Violation of the norm can be a symptom of deep linguistic and extralinguistic
processes and their combination. The present article makes an attempt to
comprehensively analyze the irregular plural form of the Ossetian noun us
‘wife, woman’ with the epithesis -т - / - t- ustyta ‘wife, women’, generalizing the
existing hypotheses of retrospection of its semantic, phonetic and morphological
development. The lexeme should be considered in a broad comparative aspect
with the involvement of data from different languages, as well as in the context
of comparison with the proper Ossetian lexemes, which also have a nonetymological
final voiceless dental consonant in their basis. The task of the
research is to find and substantiate the most exhaustive list of probable and even
unlikely factors that caused asymmetry in the declination paradigm. As such
factors are considered phonetic processes - paragogue, actions of the analogy
process, morphological and morphonological reasons.
It is possible to consider the epithesis -т - / - t- as fossilization of the plural
formant due to the grammatical synecdoche, therefore, the plural forms of a
number of Ossetian lexemes, as well as ethnonyms and family names can be
considered as tautological plural.
Keywords: epithesis, plural, East Iranian languages, the Ossetian language, Scythian
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