THE COMPOUND TENSE OF VERBS IN URMIA DIALECT (SOUTH AZERBAIJANI) AND THE FORM OF -(y)(A)rdlA(r)

The compound tense of Urmia dialect was shaped according to linguistic area of its origin, language contacts and its distinctive system. There are perfect and narrative forms of verbs with compound tense in Urmia dialect. There is perfect compound inflection of all tenses except the perfect tense and imperatives. Narrative compound tense is only seen in third persons. The conditional of verbs with compound tense hasn’t remained in Urmia dialect. Instead of this, the similar structures from Persian are used. -(y)(A)rdlA(r) form in Urmia dialect is used for present perfect tense. This form is originated from syllabification function. When -(y)(A) rdIlAr form is attached to the verbs, /？/ ~ /i/ vowels fall in the open syllable containing the suffix -dI. Remaining -d element is added to the previous syllable as it doesn’t make a syllable. There is a fragmentation as -(y)(A)rd-lA(r) in monosyllable verbs ending with a vowel and as -(KV)rd-lA(r) by taking the last suffix of verb in multisyllable verbs ending with a vowel. Also, there is a fragmentation as -(K)Ard-lA(r) by adding the last consonant of verb into the syllable. As a result, a syllable occurs in consonant-vowel-consonant-consonant format. This syllable takes on the emphasis in the word