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Author International Conference on Aspects of Iranian Linguistics (1st : 2005 : Max-Planck-Institut fur Evolutionare Anthropologie)

Title Aspects of Iranian linguistics / edited by Simin Karimi, Vida Samiian and Donald Stilo
Published Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 440 pages) : illustrations
Contents Table of contents; introduction; recent advances in persian lexicography; a link grammar parser for persian; classifiers, plural ad definiteness in persian; optionality and variation; markedness and bare nouns in persian; the emergence of ergativity in iranian; the noun phrase in hawrami; expressions of future in classical and modern new persian; raising and control in persian; event structure of verbal nouns and light verbs; different object marking in a medieval persian text; marking of arguments in balochi ergative and mixed constructions; inversion and topicalization in farsi discourse
Aspects of agrammatic language in persianthe individuating function of the persian indefinite suffix -- some remarks on the persian suffix; the ezafe as a head-marking inflectional affix; two sets of mobile verbal person agreement markers in the northern talyshi language; mood and modality in persian; on ergativity in the pamir languages; index
Summary Aspects of Iranian Linguistics introduces readers to recent research into various properties of a number of Iranian languages. The volume consists of twenty chapters that cover a full range of Iranian linguistics, including formal theoretical perspectives (from a syntactic and morphological point of view), typological and functional perspectives, and diachronic and areal perspectives. It also contains papers on computational linguistics and neurolinguistics, as well as the modern history of ..
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Iranian languages -- Congresses
Persian language -- Congresses
Language.
Linguistics.
Grammar, syntax & morphology.
FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY -- Miscellaneous.
Iranian languages
Persian language
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
Form Electronic book
Author Stilo, Donald L., 1941-
Karimi, Simin.
Samiian, Vida.
ISBN 1443810134
9781443810135
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9781299645516