The Verb System in Anaraki: Morphosemntic Categories, Split Agreement System

In this contribution, we aim to analyze the architecture of "verb" in Anaraki, a central dialect of Iran, regarding the morphosemantics categories and the split agreement system. We argue that in Anaraki the past tense is expressed through both the affix marker and the split agreement system.Through this slit system, the position and the form of the agreement marker changes according to the tense, in other words it is encoded tense-sensitively. Anaraki data show that the agreement markers in preset tense are agreement affixes while proclitics in past. This rare condition is of importance because the agreement markers are often represented in suffix form. This portrays the linguistic reality that the less a category is related to the root, the more distant it stands to the root. Based on this principle, agreement markers are expected to be positioned at the end of the verbal root, as they are not semantcally reated to the root, but syntactically. Anaraki rejects this universal tendency.