The Persian Dialect of Herat

The book presents a description of the Persian dialect of Herat as one of the most representative dialects of Khorasan, illustrated by texts recorded by the author from native dialect speakers during his field research in Afghanistan. It summarizes the results of a series of studies in Persian dialectology accomplished by the author. The description of the dialect covers phonology (including the major alterations of vowels and consonants), morphology, syntactic elements, and prepositions etc. Special attention is given to verbs, their stems and conjugation. The work also includes a review of some lexical peculiarities and a vocabulary of dialectal and common words used in Herati. Some grammatical issues are presented in the supplements.