Case System in Khansari dialect e in Typological Approach

The relationship between the head and dependent in an NP is represented by case marking. This can be represented by inflectional marking, analytic marking, word order or etc. In inflectional case marking, case is represented in an affix form and in analytic marking system it is represented by adpositions. Case marking in a clause shows the relationship between nouns and verbs. In this article, we try to study case marking in Khansari, from a typological point of view. The research is done descriptively-analytically and the corpus consists of data gathered through interviews with speakers in a questionnaire. In this dialect, nominative and accusative cases have no signs, genitive case has a sign on head and dative, ablative and locative cases are represented by a preposition. Case marking in Khansari, is analytical in some cases and also has prepositional case marking, so it is a three-partial system language in case marking