In this paper, we have tried to outline the status of preposition ZA from aspect grammaticalization, which it is subjected a considerable extent in Prizren-Timok and Kosovo-Resava dialects, its polyfunctionality confirmed by numerous examples these Serbian vernaculars. However, must be borne mind that, contrast OD, they were process so-called areal other dialects - even colloquial literary lang...

Abstract In several ancient and modern Indo-European languages, the partitive-genitive may be used in place of accusative to encode second argument two-place verbs. Ancient Greek two types object encoding can alternate with change-of-state verbs, alternation being viewed as connected degrees patient affectedness: encodes partially affected objects. Alternation also extends experiential which ar...

This paper investigates three linguistic features—wawation, the 1CS genitive clitic pronoun, and relative pronoun—that are shared between ancient epigraphic forms of Arabic modern dialects, to exclusion Classical Arabic. I suggest that these features represent earliest layer dialects.