Verb Structure in Khezeli Dialect

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Khezeli dialect is one of southern Kurdish whose span contains regions of Ilam, Kermanshah and Hamadn. Obviously that different geography, cultural and social conditions with which khezel speakers are concerned, makes different accents appear in this dialect and this also makes distinctive linguistics structure, structure analysis and inflection system in this dialect seems valuable and necessary in better understanding of the dialect. In this paper where necessary, the authors refer to differences and similarities of the present Khezeli dialect structure with Kalhori dialect. The present study approach is descriptive –analytic and library sources have been used for information collection. According to the study findings, verbal system of Khezeli has common features as well as differences with Kalhori dialect. These differences that stand for independence of Khezeli dialect from other Kurdish dialects can be seen in verb ending position, conjugation of transitive, intransitive, and passive verbs and so on. In some cases verbs wise of number and person is alike. For example in second and third person plural voices in imperative and negative imperative are the same. This study also indicates that passive verb construction in third person case is regular and in second person or addressee case is irregular.
 

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