A Description of Compound and compound-complex words in Sarhaddi Balochi of Granchin

The Sarhaddi Balochi dialect as a subdivision of Western (Rakhshani) Balochi, makes use of compounding and/or a combination of compounding and derivation as one of word formation processes. The aim of this paper is to present a synchronic description of these morphological processes based on a linguistic corpus collected through fieldwork carried out in Granchin district. The data were gathered from free speech of 10 uneducated native speakers including 5males and 5 females of about 50-80 years old living in Granchin located at about 35Kms to the southeast of Khash city in Sistan and Baluchestan Province of the Islamic Republic of Iran. The results of the research denote that a group of non-simple words of this dialect are made through compounding or both compounding and derivation processes. Likewise, there are some compounds with coordinated or ezafe construction. Furthermore, the result of employing both processes of compounding and derivation is nominal, verbal, adjectival and adverbial compound-complex words as well.