This paper investigates the origins of sortal numeral classifiers in the Indo-Iranian
languages. While these are often assumed to result from contact with non-Indo-European …

Abstract Nourzaei, M., Jahani, C., Anonby, E., and Ahangar, AA, 2015. Koroshi. A Corpus-
based Grammatical Description. Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. Studia Iranica Upsaliensia …

Pronominal clitics comprise one of the important traits of the majority of West Iranian
languages. Nevertheless, while these person clitics have been the subject of virtually …

Old Persian shows a change of postconsonantal y, w to iy, uw, respectively. However, if one
applies (pre-) Middle Persian sound changes to the Old Persian forms, the result is at …

Most studies on language contact in Iran have focused on the effects of Persian on the
country's minority languages. There are also many cases where large regional languages …

Chahar Mahal va Bakhtiari Province (hereafter CB) is nestled in the heights of the Zagros
Range in western Iran, with the mountains opening down onto the Iranian Plateau. The …

Tocharian B eñcuwo “iron” and Tocharian A añcu* have been connected to the Iranian
words for “iron”, notably Khwarezmian hnčw. On the basis of insights into the patterns of …

This paper aims to study instrumental related functions in some Western Iranian languages.
The data were collected from descriptive grammars, and interviews in some cases. Narrog's …

Keshmi, the dialect of Qeshm Island in the Strait of Hormuz, belongs to the Southwestern
branch of the Iranian languages. The largest island in the Persian Gulf, Qeshm was …

This paper investigates effects of language contact on a previously undocumented variety of
Turkic (Southern West Oghuz) spoken by sedentarized nomads in the city of Boldaji, Chahar …