Nazila Shafiei
List of John Benjamins publications for which Nazila Shafiei plays a role.
Article
2023 Chapter 2. Persian quantifiers and their scope Advances in Iranian Linguistics II, Karimi, Simin, Narges Nematollahi, Roya Kabiri and Jian Gang Ngui (eds.), pp. 44–80 | Chapter
This paper investigates quantifiers and their scope in Persian, proposing that Persian is not a scope-rigid language, rather scope rigidity in this language is a construction-specific property controlled by scrambling. In other words, the availability of scrambling translates into lack of… read more