Azam Estaji
List of John Benjamins publications for which Azam Estaji plays a role.
Articles
2009. Morphosyntactic changes in Persian and their effects on syntax. Grammatical Change in Indo-European Languages: Papers presented at the workshop on Indo-European Linguistics at the XVIIIth International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Montreal, 2007, Bubenik, Vit, John Hewson and Sarah Rose (eds.), pp. 195–206
Article
2007. On the development of the tense/aspect system in Early New and New Persian. Diachronica 24:1, pp. 31–56
The unique documentation of the Iranian family of languages provides a rare opportunity to study the development of a verbal system over the span of several millennia. We argue that the rise of the Early New Persian aspectual type was a consequence of the loss of ergative typology, examining the… read more | Article