A Descriptive Typological Analysis of Verbal Inflection in the Larestani Language; In the View of Agglutination Hypothesis

This article describes the typological status of verbal inflection, based on Agglutination Hypothesis, in the Larestani Language. According to this approach, although the well-known morphological typology of languages ( Isolating, Inflectional, Agglutinating) have been criticized as empty, the old idea that there are (predominantly) agglutinating and (predominantly) fusional languages in fact makes two implicit predictions. First agglutination/fusion is a characteristic of whole languages rather than individual constructions; second, the various components of agglutination/ fusion correlate with each other. To explore this hypothesis, at first a descriptive analysis of verbal categories of verb (tense, person, number, mood, aspect, infinitive, negation  and imperative markers ) in Larestani is provided and then the accuracy of this hypothesis is tested. The overall result of this study are mostly negative. The evidence that different types of verbal inflections tend to behave alike, which would have been expected if the correlation one existed, is not overwhelming and also no significant correlation among different indexes of agglutination and fusion are  attested.