Disappearance of verbal inflectional affixes in New Persian and its implications

New Persian encompasses a long period of time which starts with the Arab invasion of Iran and introduction of Islam to this country. This period stretches to the present time. During this period many aspects of this language have been subject to change. The emphasis of this article is on the inflectional system of verbs. Here based on the evidence provided from prose texts, it is argued that some verbal affixes have either disappeared from the inventory of inflectional affixes, or their use have been constrained; at the same time no new inflectional affix has been added to verbs. On the other hand, one can witness the development of a new auxiliary through the process of grammaticalization. At least as far as verb morphology is concerned, all these support the idea that Persian Language has had the tendency of becoming more and more analytic.