Modality, Aspect and Negation in Persian
Azita H. Taleghani
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 128] 2008. ix, 183 pp.
Azita H. Taleghani
List of John Benjamins publications for which Azita H. Taleghani plays a role.
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Subjects Generative linguistics | Other Indo-European languages | Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
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2007 Wh-movement, interpretation, and optionality in Persian Phrasal and Clausal Architecture: Syntactic derivation and interpretation, Karimi, Simin, Vida Samiian and Wendy K. Wilkins (eds.), pp. 167–187 | Article
We examine the syntactic behavior of wh-arguments and wh-adjuncts in Persian, a wh-in-situ language that exhibits (seemingly) optional wh-movement. We show that the two types of wh-phrases have distinct internal structures that are responsible for their different syntactic behavior. The analysis… read more