On the Indicative Imperfect and the Other Tenses in -eɾ of the Armenian Dialect of Urmia Historical and Typological Aspects of a Morphological Innovation

In the Armenian dialect of Urmia (Northern Iran), indicative imperfect displays a very innovating inflection, based on addition morpheme ‘-eɾ’ (properly 3s verb ‘to beʼ) to present. This ‘remotenessʼ creates opposition between other tenses as well, such perfect and pluperfect, future past future. The article deals with reconstruction origin diffusion this in verbal system Urmia, focusing both endogenous morphological dynamics role language contact Turkic varieties trigger change.