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Abstract:
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While there is some material on the verbal system of Saravani (e.g. Baranzehi 2003) and Lashari (e.g. Mahmood Bakhtiari 2003) dialects, the western and southern Balochi dialects of Iran have for the most part not yet been described in this respect. This paper, which is based on the auther's fieldwork, provides a synchronic description of some significant grammatical categories intrinsically/rationally associated with verbs in Sarhaddi Balochi spoken in Granchin (henceforth abbreviated as SBG). These morpho-syntactic categories include the intrinsic (inherent) categories agreement, tense, aspect, and mood as well as voice as a relational category.
Granchin is a rural district some 35 km to the southeast of Khash in the Sistan and Balouchistan province of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
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