Clitics in KhorramAbadi Lori

Local languages and dialects, as a part of the culture and civilization of any nation, are being destructed on reasons such as, immigration of native speakers. Therefore, in order to revive and record these languages and dialects, scientific studies should be conducted by linguists. In the present study, clitics in KhorramAbadi Lori are introduced, investigated, and divided into two classes of ‘second-position’ and ‘phrasal affix’, in terms of their position of attachment to the head, dependent or phrase. The research method includes: preparing a (215) -sentence questionnaire, interviewing with native speakers, extracting and investigating clitics of this language variety using Shaghaghi's model (2013). Of course, foreign models have also been surveyed. The findings revealed that clitics in this dialect are incorporated at the end of their own host. Also the morphemes of genitive /e/, definiteness or indefiniteness, indefinite allocation, and endoclitical pronouns are placed in second-position endoclitics, while morphemes of definite object, coordinations, verb emphasis, adding adverb, and endoclitical verb are placed in phrasal affix endoclitics. Results show that in this language, phrasal affixes as regards their position, are closer to affixes on a continuum, in comparison with second position endoclitics.