Modality, Aspect and Negation in Persian
| University of Toronto
This monograph presents a morpho-syntactic investigation on modality, aspect, and negation by concentrating on Persian, and is designed to contribute to theoretical linguistics and the study of Iranian languages. The analysis is based on the Minimalist program. This research challenges the idea that the syntactic structure maps on the semantic interpretation or vice versa. The discussion presented in this monograph shows that the syntactic structure of Persian modals is uniform no matter if the modals are interpreted as having root or epistemic readings. Although it is claimed that modals are raising constructions in different languages, modals in Persian, which does not have subject-raising constructions, show a different syntactic behavior. Furthermore, the structural analysis of the interaction of Persian modals and negation shows that because of the scope interaction of negation and modals, the syntactic structure of modals with respect to negation mostly corresponds to the semantic interpretation of modals.
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 128] 2008. ix, 183 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
List of abbreviations
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ix
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Specific codes
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ix
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Chapter 1. Introduction
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1–15
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Chapter 2. Mood and modality in Persian: Morpho-syntactic and semantic view
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17–49
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Chapter 3. Persian modals: Syntactic representation
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51–104
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Chapter 4. Negation
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105–134
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Chapter 5. Interaction of modality with negation
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135–156
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Chapter 6. Persian word order: Reconsideration
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157–170
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Chapter 7. Concluding remarks
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171–174
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References
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175–179
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Index of subjects
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181–183
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“The book is a foundational work in the study of Persian syntax.”
Maziar Toosarvandani, University of California, Berkeley, on Linguist List 20.1932, 2009
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Subjects
Linguistics
BIC Subject: CFK – Grammar, syntax
BISAC Subject: LAN009000 – LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General