Grammatical tense in Laki Nurabadi Dialect: A dichotomous tense structure

The present research accounts for the characteristic tense patterns of the verbal system in Laki Nurabadi dialect, in comparison to Farsi language. The study takes the following course of progress. It consists of an analysis of a set of related phenomena within the sample, including a brief introduction to the dialect position in Iranian language family, together with a survey of structural analyses within it. The paper presents the dialectal conjugation verb patterns in a dichotomous fashion of the major categories of past/non-past forms, compared to the triple past/future/present classification of Farsi. The analysis of the past forms, accordingly, includes: past simple, past continuous, past and present perfect; as well as, subjunctive and progressive forms. The non-past analysis, additionally, describes: present indicative, present subjunctive, and present progressive forms.