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From Oral to Written: a Text-Linguistic Study of Wakhi Narratives ACTA UNIVERSITATIS UPSALIENSIS Studia Iranica Upsaliensia 35 From Oral to Written A Text-linguistic Study of Wakhi Narratives Jaroslava Obrtelová A PDF of this book as well as a PDF of Appendix E is available online at: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-381858 Dissertation presented at Uppsala University to be publicly examined in Ihresalen (21-0011), Engelska Parken, Thunbergsvägen 3, Uppsala, Friday, 14 June 2019 at 10:15 for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. The examination will be conducted in English. Faculty examiner: Docent Henrik Liljegren (Stockholm University). Abstract Obrtelová, J. 2019. From Oral to Written. A Text-linguistic Study of Wakhi Narratives. Studia Iranica Upsaliensia 35. 333 pp. Uppsala: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. ISBN 978-91-513-0664-3. Wakhi is one of the endangered “Pamir” languages belonging to the East Iranian group of Indo-European. A total of around 72,000 Wakhi speakers live in the border areas of four countries: Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan and China. This study focuses on the Wakhi spoken in Tajikistan, which for a long time was unwritten. Recently, however, native speakers have made significant efforts to preserve and develop their mother tongue in written form. This study examines textual differences between oral and written narratives in Wakhi from a discourse-pragmatic perspective. It addresses issues relating to the transition from an unwritten to an early-stage written language. Rather than finding a clear boundary between the two, it proposes a continuum with spontaneous narratives at one end and written narratives at the other, and identifies both syntactic and textual differences between them. Oral narratives prepared in advance differ from the spontaneously told ones and share some characteristics with written narratives. The first and most extensive part of the study compares interclausal coordinate and subordinate relations in the oral and written narratives. Coordination in written narratives is usually achieved using unmarked forms and with fewer types of coordinating devices than in oral narratives. Unmarked patterns of complementation are also more frequent in written than in oral narratives. However, temporal subordinate clauses in written narratives favour the post-nuclear form that is described as marked, whereas oral narratives prefer the unmarked pre-nuclear order. The second part analyses significant differences between the two forms of expression from the perspective of their function in the overall structure of narratives. One significant difference concerns story development techniques. Development in oral narratives is marked primarily through a “then”-type conjunction, but in written narratives is signalled through certain forms of references to agents. An annotated corpus of 29 written and 13 oral narratives accompanies the publication (available in electronic format). Keywords: Wakhi, Iranian languages, text-linguistics, oral narratives, written narratives, discourse analysis Jaroslava Obrtelová, Department of Linguistics and Philology, Box 635, Uppsala University, SE-75126 Uppsala, Sweden. © Jaroslava Obrtelová 2019 ISSN 1100-326X ISBN 978-91-513-0664-3 urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-381858 (http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-381858) To my Jan &RQWHQWV /LVW RI 7DEOHV /LVW RI )LJXUHV $EEUHYLDWLRQV $FNQRZOHGJHPHQWV ,QWURGXFWLRQ 5HVHDUFK WRSLF :DNKL LQ FRQWH[W $Q RYHUYLHZ RI WKH KLVWRU\ RI WKH 3DPLU DUHD &ODVVLILFDWLRQ DQG JHQHWLF UHODWLRQV 3DPLU ODQJXDJHV LQ 7DMLNLVWDQ *HRJUDSKLF DQG VRFLDO VHWWLQJ 6RFLROLQJXLVWLF VLWXDWLRQ RI WKH 3DPLU ODQJXDJHV +LVWRU\ DQG WKH FXUUHQW VWDWH RI ODQJXDJH GH YHORSPHQW :DNKL LQ 7DMLNLVWDQ 3UHYLRXV VWXGLHV RQ :DNKL :DNKL ODQJXDJH GHVFULSWLRQ ± VHOHFWHG WRSLFV 9HUEV 1RQWHQVH 3DVW WHQVH 3HUIHFW 'HULYHG ILQLWH IRUPV 1RQILQLWH YHUE IRUPV 6HQWHQFH FODXVH DQG FODXVH FRPELQLQJ LQ :DNKL ,QGHSHQGHQW FODXVHV LQ :DNKL /LJKW YHUE 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