Arismani is a variety of Badrudi spoken in the village of Arisman near Badrud County in northeastern Isfahan. Like other central Iranian languages, it shows the ergative construction in the form of verb agreement, but while most of the central languages, lost the verb ending that agrees with the object, Arismani has retained it. Arismni has also a bicasual case system in personal pronouns. The purpose of this article is to investigate the possibility of case marking ergative, and also to examine how the verb agreement Ergative is used in Arismani. The findings of this article show that Arismani, though has the case in the pronoun, does not show a case marking ergative, and in the case of verb agreement in the past transitive verbs, the verb ending agrees with the object of the sentence in respect of person, number, and gender.
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