Ryan Walter Smith
List of John Benjamins publications for which Ryan Walter Smith plays a role.
Article
2020 Chapter 9. Another look at Persian rā: A single formal analysis of a multi-functional morpheme Advances in Iranian Linguistics, Larson, Richard K., Sedigheh Moradi and Vida Samiian (eds.), pp. 155–172 | 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