Leila Ziamajidi
List of John Benjamins publications for which Leila Ziamajidi plays a role.
Article
2020 The rise of the analytic Perfect aspect in the West Iranian languages Historical Linguistics 2017: Selected papers from the 23rd International Conference on Historical Linguistics, San Antonio, Texas, 31 July – 4 August 2017, Drinka, Bridget (ed.), pp. 273–292 | Chapter
This paper focuses on the long-term grammaticalization of tense/aspect systems in the West Iranian languages, beginning with Old Iranian (Section 1). In Middle Persian (Section 2) the Aorist and the reduplicative Perfect of Old Persian were replaced by a new system of analytic constructions. The… read more