Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics, Faculty of Foreign languages, Islamic Azad University, Tehran Branch
Abstract
There are a number of infinitive forms in some Iranian dialects and patois of Isfahan Province, belonging to the Central dialects, i.e. Central Plateau Dialect (CPD) group or Median dialects by some western scholars. In this paper, which is mostly based on the author's fieldwork, an attempt is made to describe the structure of the infinitive in these dialects.There are four major types of infinitives that are formed by adding suffixes to the past stem and in one case, to the present stem. However, in most dialects there are two or three complementary types, one as verbal noun, and another as main verb usually used with modals.
