Typological Correlation between the Adposition Type and the Order of Verb and Object in Khorasani Turkish

There is a typological correlation between the adposition type and the order of verb and object in languages. The present survey aims at studying the said correlation in Khorasani Turkish. The corpus of this study is extracted from Iran Linguistic Atlas database, which is compiling in the Research Institute for Cultural Heritage and Tourism. The corpus contains 360 Khorasani Turkish sentences and phrases which contain seven adpositions “with, in, to, from, till, beside, and the object marker “/ra/”. For the manageability of the survey, 24 geographical language varieties of Khorasani Turkish are chosen to be studied and compared.The type of adposition is postposition in all of the studied Khorasani Turkish varieties, which can be independent lexical words or appears as a suffix. The unmarked word order in the studied varieties is Subject-Object-Verb (SOV) like Azeri Turkish and they are all verb-final. Being in contact with Persian and other languages of the region, except in limited cases, has no effect on changing this structure and their other linguistic features. The survey findings show that Khorasani Turkish is consistent with language universals in the correlation between adposition type and the order of verb and object.