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The Word Order in Saravi Dialect and Spoken Persian Language: A Typological Comparative Study

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2022

Mahinnaz Mirdehghan
Affiliation:
Shahid Beheshti University, Iran
Shirin Mehmanchian
Affiliation:
Shahid Beheshti University, Iran

Abstract

This research is a comparative study of the typological parameters of contemporary spoken Persian language and Saravi, a main dialect of the Mazandarani language, using some Greenbergian universals as its theoretical framework in word order correlations. The study aims to determine the common parameters and the variations of specific syntactic constituents among the systems studied here. On this basis it investigates the unmarked word order in declarations, as well as preparing a systematic comparison of phrasal genitive and adjective structures in the systems under investigation, along with examining their self and possessive pronominal orders. Together with revealing the use of differential orderings within the systems in these respects throughout the paper, the findings uphold Greenberg's language universals as a useful tool in classifying language types as well as specifying the variations of the syntactic constituents.

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Copyright © The International Society for Iranian Studies 2012

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