A Response to a Critique of the Book ʺMaterials for the Study of Bakhtiari Dialectʺ

Abstract

The present study is a response to E. Hosseini-Matakʼs critique of the book entitled “Materials for the Study of Bakhtiari Dialect” (Zhukovsky, 1396/2017). The author, as the co-editor of the above work, attempts to reveal the invalidity of a number of the critic’s claims, referring to the statements of the very book and explaining some linguistic points and the reasons to adopt certain methodological approaches. It seems that the aforementioned critic has totally avoided dealing with the strong points of the book.

Keywords

• critique
• bakhtiari dialect
• v. a. zhukovsky