Anonby Erik, Asadi Ashraf. Bakhtiari Studies: Phonology, Text, Lexicon

Uppsala: Uppsala Universitet, 2014. — 222 p. — (Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis: Studia Iranica Upsaliensia 24). — ISBN 978-91-554-9094-2.Bakhtiari, a Southwestern Iranian language in the Luri language continuum, is spoken by over a million people in the Zagros Mountains of Iran. Almost a century after Lorimer's (1922) publication on the phonology of Bakhtiari, the present study re-examines this topic in the light of contemporary linguistics, the study of lexicon and texts, and crucially, native speaker intuition. This new research clarifies some of the important questions left by Lorimer and in doing so, leads to surprising insights into the basic structure of the system, which shows some fundamental divergences from Middle and New Persian, and even from the other Luri languages. The first part of the book situates the language within its larger geographic and genetic context, defines the language and its varieties, and provides a summary of research on the language. The second section, which constitutes the core of the study, is devoted to an in-depth analysis of the phonological system, including segmental phonology (inventory, contrast, allophonic processes, and distribution), syllable structure and an array of morphophonological processes, as well as stress and intonation. The final three sections of the book comprise an interlinearized Bakhtari folktale, tables of verb paradigms, and a semantically organized lexicon containing 1500 items.Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction
The Bakhtiari language
Contribution and structure of this book
The research team.
The data corpus
The phonology of Bakhtiari
Organization of the phonological description
Consonants
Consonant inventory
Some general differences with Persian consonants
Consonant distribution and contrast
Phonetic realizations of consonants
Vowels
Vowel chart
Vowel distribution and contrast
Vowel sequences
Interpretation of “long mid vowels” ē and ō
Other diphthongs and vowel-glide sequences
Vowel modifications
Phonetic realizations of vowels
Syllables
Syllable distribution
Number of syllables in words
Prosodic phenomena
Stress
Intonation
Morphophonemic processes
List of affixes in Bakhtiari
Assimilation
Dissimilation
Deletion
Insertion
Other processes
A Bakhtiari text
Grammatical highlights
The text: Conference of the animals
Verb morphology
Verbs and the Bakhtiari lexicon
Highlights of verb morphology
Tables of verb conjugations
Bakhtiari lexicon
References