Abstract
Abstract The present article examines the peculiar shape that the Middle Iranian word for ‘praise’, āfrīn, has achieved as a loanword in the language of the Caucasian “Albanians” where it appears as afre- in the complex verb afre-pesown ‘praise, bless’. Based on a thorough investigation of the morphology of formations with the light verb -pesown in Caucasian Albanian, it is proven that a recent proposal, which assumes the influence of an agreement marker, is untenable; instead, it is shown how afre- can have emerged from a metanalysis of afrin as a case form.
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