Verb conjugation in the Ardestan Dialect

Motallebi, Mohammad; Barande, Sahar

doi:10.22099/jill.2018.25685.1052

Verb conjugation in the Ardestan Dialect

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

Mohammad Motallebi ¹
Sahar Barande ²

¹ Assistant Professor in Shahid Bahonar University

² M.A. in Ancient Culture and Languages, Shahid Bahonar University

10.22099/jill.2018.25685.1052

Abstract

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.

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