The Study of Clitic Pronouns in some Persian Dialects of Razavi & Southern Khorasan

The attempt in this article is to study the clitic pronouns in some Persian dialects of Razavi and southern Khorasan as there are many language verities in Khorasani dialects. Clitics have been used in the Persian Language from the very far past, that is, Ancient period, up to now. Passing of time have undergone changes in the functions and frequency of these clitics in Persian and its dialects. Since language changes of the dialects do not necessarily adhere to intra- and inter-lingual conditions of the changes in standard language, reviewing these changes can illuminate significant records about the process of creating these changes. It’s a descriptive-analytic research. The data of this research is taken either from the theses and articles or via the speech users of these dialects. The results showed while in some Persian dialects of Khorasan (such as Raqqe &Tabasi), the function of clitic pronouns is more diverse and frequent than standard Persian, in some other ones (Taybadi & Khafi), these clitics are not used or (in some like Sadeh) are not frequent or (like Kakhki) are in a different position comparing to standard Persian. Data analysis also showed that the factors like animacy and definiteness can affect the presence or absence of some clitic pronouns in some of these dialects (like Raqqe, Tabasi, Kakhki and sadeh).