Fereshteh Modarresi
List of John Benjamins publications for which Fereshteh Modarresi plays a role.
Articles
2023 Anaphoric potential of bare nominals, incorporated objects and weak definites in German: Experimental results and theoretical modeling Reference: From conventions to pragmatics, Gardelle, Laure, Laurence Vincent-Durroux and Hélène Vinckel-Roisin (eds.), pp. 27–51 | Chapter
In many languages, syntactic objects can be realized in a variety of ways, from maximally distinct DPs to morphologically integrated nominal stems. For example, German allows for viele Fische fangen, Fische fangen, am Fischefangen sein, beim Fischfang sein and fischen. We also find strong… read more
2023 Chapter 1. Anaphoric potential of pseudo-incorporated bare objects in Persian Advances in Iranian Linguistics II, Karimi, Simin, Narges Nematollahi, Roya Kabiri and Jian Gang Ngui (eds.), pp. 12–43 | Chapter
This paper investigates the syntax, semantics and discourse effects of bare nominal objects in Persian, analysed as an instance of pseudo-incorporation, in contrast to objects marked by the indefinite article yek and to objects marked by the object marker -rā. The main experimental result is… read more