معصومه زارعی

This study typologically explores argument structure in the complex predicates of Garrusi Kurdish produced in the narrative context of The Pear Story film (Chafe, ۱۹۷۵). In this study, the complex predicates with the support verb k?rd?n (‘to make’) in Garrusi Kurdish, will be investigated within the scope of the semantic content of the arguments, argument coding strategies, salience of the arguments in the information packaging, and the representation of these complex predicates in basic eventive complex predicate construction, serial verb and auxiliary verb construction. The present study, based on the Functional Constructional Grammar approach in Croft’s typological framework (۲۰۲۲), with an experimental, fieldwork, and database methodology, describes the predicate-argument construction of Garrusi Kurdish complex predicates. Therefore, for data collection, ۳۰ native speakers of Garrusi Kurdish were interviewed face-to-face. These individual  were asked to narrate  what was happening in the Pear Story as they were watching the film, in Garrusi Kurdish, and their voice was recorded by the interviewer.  Then, the clauses with complex predicates whose verbal element was the support ver  k?rd?n  (‘to make’) were extracted from the created corpus and were studied based on the argument structure construction, concerning semantic content, coding strategies, salience, and representation in serial verb and auxiliary verb constructions. Based on the research findings, the typology of argument structure in the complex predicates of Garrusi Kurdish represents a spectrum of various patterns in the formation of this linguistic construction in this type of Kurdish language. Core (subject and object) and oblique arguments in Garrusi Kurdish complex predicates were observed to have different semantic contents, based on the event in which they played a role. Concerning flagging and indexation strategies, these arguments were encoded as zero, affixal, clitic, and adpositional, and, with regard to word order strategy, they appeared in different patterns. These arguments, when expressed in passive-inverse, antipassive, and applicative constructions, were packaged as salient, less salient, and non-salient. However, causative construction does not have any impact on their salience. In addition, the explored complex predicates, in serial verb and auxiliary verb constructions, based on the coding strategy used in the sequence of the two verbal elements, manifested variation in their patterns of expression.