Baroba/Barze Posposition in Imerkhevian and Taoian Dialects

Abstract

The Imerkhevian and Taoian dialects existing outside of Georgia have been separated from their motherland for centuries and are intensively influenced by the Turkish language. The relationship between the Turkish and Georgian people with different languages and traditions was also reflected in their speech. The influence of Turkish can be seen at all linguistic levels: in phonetics, morphology, vocabulary...

The article discusses the formal-semantic analysis of the adposition baroba/barze in relation to other dialects of the Georgian language.

According to the Explanatory Dictionary of the Georgian Language,  baroba – mis barobaze - for him, for his share; (visime) barobit- verb prefix, for (someone’s) sake, for (someone). Word forms with baroba in the function of adpositions are quite common in Imerkhevian and Taouian. It is added to the genitive case form, mostly to pronouns and nouns. In most cases, the element -s as the case marker, is cut off. It is used in different forms: in Imerkhevian, the variations of barobai, barze, barobaza are confirmed, while in Taouian - the variations of barze, baaze are verified.

Cf.: Data from the Georgian language dialects: bara, baraze, barobaze (Meshketian), baradan (Ingilo), balaze (Fereydanian), barobaze, barobit (Imeretian), baroba, barobai (Adjarian).

The semantics of the analyzed adposition in Imerkhevian and Taouian is diverse;  By means of it, the aim, purpose, reason, etc. is expressed; In different contexts, they correspond to the prepositional forms  - tvis, -gamo, -ze, shesakheb (about) and the content expressed by the words miznit (for the purpose), amitom (since).

As a result of the analysis of Imerkhevian and Taoian material, interesting facts about the use of the preposition baroba were revealed, both from the point of view of its form and function-semantics.