Masoud Jasbi

List of John Benjamins publications for which Masoud Jasbi plays a role.

Articles

Jasbi, Masoud 2020 Chapter 6. The suffix that makes Persian nouns uniqueAdvances in Iranian Linguistics, Larson, Richard K., Sedigheh Moradi and Vida Samiian (eds.), pp. 107–118 | Chapter
Although it is widely acknowledged that Tehrani Persian (often broadly labeled as Persian) has no dedicated marker of definiteness, the nominal suffix -e has been analyzed as a colloquial definiteness marker. Here I show that -e can mark bare nominals to ensure a definite interpretation, but it… read more
Jasbi, Masoud 2020 Chapter 7. The meaning of the Persian object marker rā: What it is not, and what it (probably) isAdvances in Iranian Linguistics, Larson, Richard K., Sedigheh Moradi and Vida Samiian (eds.), pp. 119–136 | Chapter
The Persian object marker rā is called many things, among them: marker of specificity (Karimi 1990), definiteness (Mahootian 1997), secondary topics (Dabir-Moghaddam 1992), and presuppositions (Ghomeshi 1996). These accounts capture the core of what rā is, yet also include a lot of what rā is not. read more