Talk:Tati language (Iran)

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I have included dialect material from Professor Ehsan Yarsheter. Unfortunately Wikipedia won't allow a link to that website for some odd reason. :/ Azalea pomp (talk) 03:32, 30 March 2009 (UTC)

Language structure
The first para of the grammar sxn is pretty much wrong, at least as it touches on linguistics in general (I don't know anything about this language, so it may be just fine when it talks about that). For example: "In any language, roots and verb affixes constitute the most basic and important components of a language." Not true, verbs are no more basic or important than other parts of speech, nouns in particular. And certainly not all languages have verb affixes, e.g. Chinese (Mandarin, Cantonese...) and Vietnamese, among other languages, lack verbal affixes. (It's unclear whether the para is talking about derivational or inflectional affixes, or perhaps it's assuming that distinction is not clear, but in either case there are plenty of languages without either one.) "In many new Iranian languages, verb affixes have been left almost unnoticed..." Not clear what is meant here either: unnoticed in the linguistic literature? certainly not true, there are many standard analyses of these. "Unlike the root, verb affixes can be easily identified and described." Again, certainly not true in general; I don't know about Tati. (And if you can separate off the verbal affix, what's left is a stem, which is often a root; so I don't know why the roots should be any harder than the affixes to identify.) Finally, the citation for this paragraph (currently footnote 14) is unclear; it lists an author and title, but no publication information. If it's a private (unpublished) paper, then it's not a legitimate citation for wikipedia; rather, it's "original research" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:No_original_research). Mcswell (talk) 14:47, 15 August 2019 (UTC)