Descriptions of the verb system of the Dialect of Ardakan in Fars Province

The dialect of Ardakan in Fars is one of the western-south dialects of Iran spoken in some of parts of Sepidan and especially in its center, Ardakan, in Fars province. This study examines the verb system of this dialect precisely by analyzing the data gathered through questionnaires and interviews with informants who are above 35 years old. In this research, topics such as infinitives, verb stems, verb endings, different tenses, moods, causative verbs, and passive voice are analyzed. In order to show how this dialect keeps the ergative structure, transitive and intransitive verbs in simple past, present perfect, past imperfective, past continuous, past perfect, and past subjunctive tenses and the use of them in sentences are compared. Then, different moods in this dialect such as indicative, subjunctive, and imperative moods are studied. At the end, it is analyzed the way causative verbs and passive voice are made.