Investigating the Components of Word Order in Khorramabad Lori Language

Khorramabad Lori language is one of the languages of southwest of Iran and like other languages it has its own grammatical and typological features. Today, because of the effect of Persian on Lori, as an endangered language, it goes to disappear and this requires linguistic analysis of this topic with the goal of formulating the grammatical rules governing that. Thus, this article addresses the components of word order in this language. The method includes preparing a questionnaire, interviewing with native speakers, transcribing the gathered data and typological analysis of this language. In order to analyze data, the order and sequence of words were tested in according to components of Dryer’s word order pattern by providing dialectic samples. The investigations reveal that for example adposition comes in the form of preposition; and relative clause, noun, attributive verb, verb and main verb come after nominal head, genitive, predicate, adverb of manner and auxiliary verb respectively. At result, tendency of this language is on strong verb initial. Also, this language acts like Persian in terms of the component of word order.