The Spatial Thematic Roles Markers in Neyshabouri Turkish: A Descriptive Approach

Since each language and dialect mirrors culture and identity of various ethnicities and are deemed mankind heritage, preserving, collecting, and registering the data of each variety is of paramount importance. Due to urban development and mass media, Persian may marginalize unknown varieties, even to the level of their disappearance making them dead languages. It is incumbent on the authors to take actions in preserving Neyshabouri Turkish variety. So far, many varieties have been covered and registered all over Iran, but it is still a long way to the ideal state. This paper examines different markers of spatial thematic roles in a Khorasani Turkish, i.e. Neyshabouri Turkish, a south variety spoken in the district of Sarvelayat predominantly. These roles are morphologically formalized in this language through wide use of postpositions. This paper is descriptive in terms of its approach. This paper also shows how much this variety utilizes vowel harmony.