Shiraz University Journal of Iranian Dialects Linguistics 2538-3574 2 1 2017 03 21 Verb conjugation in the Ardestan Dialect Verb conjugation in the Ardestan Dialect 149 179 4758 10.22099/jill.2018.25685.1052 FA Mohammad Motallebi Assistant Professor in Shahid Bahonar University Sahar Barande M.A. in Ancient Culture and Languages, Shahid Bahonar University Journal Article 2017 06 07 Ardestan dialect which is one of the dialects of the northern branch of the group of languages ​​and the dialect of the new Western Iran is common in the central part of Ardestan city of Isfahan province. This dialect alongside the Zoroastrian dialect of Yazd and Kerman, the dialect of Kalimian Yazd and Kerman, as well as, Anarak and Zafra dialects is located in the southeastern group of central dialects of Iran. This article is devoted to verb inflection in which categories such as, stem inflectional affixes, identifiers, the way of constructing different tenses & cases are investigated as well. The required dialect corpus is collected through interviews with male and female speakers of various sex and educational groups. According to this research, the most important feature of this dialect is the distinction between transitive & intransitive verbs in past tense inflection & application of ergative-absolutive construction in the transitive pasts. Passive construction by using passive stem is rarely observed in the speech of some speakers. Ardestan dialect which is one of the dialects of the northern branch of the group of languages ​​and the dialect of the new Western Iran is common in the central part of Ardestan city of Isfahan province. This dialect alongside the Zoroastrian dialect of Yazd and Kerman, the dialect of Kalimian Yazd and Kerman, as well as, Anarak and Zafra dialects is located in the southeastern group of central dialects of Iran. This article is devoted to verb inflection in which categories such as, stem inflectional affixes, identifiers, the way of constructing different tenses & cases are investigated as well. The required dialect corpus is collected through interviews with male and female speakers of various sex and educational groups. According to this research, the most important feature of this dialect is the distinction between transitive & intransitive verbs in past tense inflection & application of ergative-absolutive construction in the transitive pasts. Passive construction by using passive stem is rarely observed in the speech of some speakers. https://jill.shirazu.ac.ir/article_4758_cd12adb08c9fdd0e8323d734c63ae6a2.pdf