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(239) rast bejin xuş zelam 93 (AN2:31)
straight stature good men
‘straight stature, good men’
5.4.1.1.9 Possessor before noun
There was one instance in the corpus where a poet put a possessor before the head
noun. By putting me, 1O, before dil, ’heart,’ shown in (240), Nalbend avoided use of the
ezafe particle, which would have added an additional syllable to his line. Outside of this
line of poetry, I have never observed anyone putting a possessive pronoun before a head
noun.
(240) me dil(-ê) beḧir-a tijî kêm=e (AN1:58)
1OP heart(-EZ.M) ocean-EZ.F full puss=COP.PRS.3SG
‘Our heart is an ocean full of puss (water of a wound).’
5.4.1.1.10 Number after noun
As mentioned in § 4.4.2.5, numbers precede nouns in normal speech. In line 11 of
Xoşe Wekî Cenetê, ˈIt’s Wonderful Like Heaven,’ the third line in example (241),
Nalbend put the number hizar, ‘thousand,’ after the head noun, cins, ‘species,’ and a
modifying noun, kulîlk, ‘flowers.’ Numbers, as modifiers, are typically part of the noun
phrase; however, in this instance, the end of the noun phrase is marked by the plural
oblique marker on kulîlk. Hence, hizar is technically outside the noun phrase, yet
understood to be part of it, as it is also a modifier of cins. Nalbend likely put hizar at the
end in order to rhyme it with the words ending the two preceding lines, bihar and
darubar, also shown. In normal language a speaker would say, hizar cinsê kulîlka.
(241) taze 94 =ye lê xoş bihar (AN2:9-11)
beautiful=COP.PRS.3SG in.3OF nice spring
‘A nice spring in it is beautiful,
93 Zelam is translated as plural, ‘men,’ because it is part of an equative sentence that has an understood
plural subject via a 3PL copula in line 29.
94 Chyet (2003) would define taze as ‘fresh, green.’