Karimi, Simin, Narges Nematollahi, Roya Kabiri and Jian Gang Ngui 2023 IntroductionAdvances in Iranian Linguistics II, Karimi, Simin, Narges Nematollahi, Roya Kabiri and Jian Gang Ngui (eds.), pp. 1–11
The Iranian language family is the western branch of the Indo-Iranian language group which itself belongs to the Indo-European language family. As Windfuhr (2009) states, “with an estimated 150–200 million native speakers, the Iranian language family is one of the world’s major language families. read more | Chapter
The morpheme -rā has typically been analyzed as an instance of differential object marking, appearing on direct objects that are definite or in some sense specific. In this chapter, we discuss several cases in which -rā may appear on DPs that are not direct objects. Building on insights from… read more | Chapter
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 | Article