THE HERATI PREPOSITION TA(Y)-YE / TEY-YE: PHONETIC TRANSFORMATION OR CONTAMINATION OF TWO PREPOSITIONS?
This article deals with a preposition in the Herati dialect, which completely coincides in semantics and grammatical functions with the Persian preposition tu-ye, but is phonetically more similar to the preposition ta(h)-e. Based on the analysis, comparison with analogues in other Persian and Iranian dialects, the author comes to the conclusion that with a high degree of probability it can be assumed that the Herati preposition historically represents a contamination of tu-ye and ta(h)-e, which was facilitated by phonetic proximity and partly echoing circle of grammatical meanings of both prepositions. At the same time, from a synchronic point of view, this preposition in Herati is quite correct to consider as a dialectal variant of the Persian tu-ye.