Typology of the Hanashuri Dialect in Terms of Representation of Grammatical Relations

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Department of Foreign Languages and Linguistics, Shiraz University , Shiraz, Iran

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The Hanashuri dialect is a Persian language variety in Bushehr province. The Hanashur village is located in Tasuj rural district of Shonbeh and Tasuj district of Dashti county. In this research, the morphological-syntactic tools for marking grammatical relations and the five-fold systems of case and agreement have been analyzed based on Comrie's classical Typology theory in Hanashuri. Interviews with selected speakers, recording and recording of speech and phonetic data have been used to form a linguistic corpus using descriptive-analytical methods, both fieldwork and library research, to conduct the present study, and the required information has been collected and analyzed using these methods. The results of this research show that Hanashuri uses two of the three possible tools for representing the role of participants in the clause. Accordingly, the morphological device of agreement (head-marking) can be mentioned as the first tool and main strategy for marking grammatical relations in this dialect. This is while the morphological device of case-marking (dependent-marking) does not have a special place in this dialect. The syntactic device of word-order is also used as the second tool and secondary strategy for marking grammatical relations in Hanashuri. Regarding the establishment of five systems in Hanashuri, it can be said that mostly, the subject-object and then the neutral systems are observed in some cases of this dialect; however, the ergative-absolute, two-part and three-part systems do not have a special place in the Hanashuri dialect.

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Journal of Linguistics & Iranian Languages
Volume 10, Issue 2
October 2025
Pages 19-37

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  • Receive Date: 10 September 2025
  • Revise Date: 02 October 2025
  • Accept Date: 17 October 2025

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