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  • Simin Karimi , Narges Nematollahi , Roya Kabiri and Jian Gang Ngui
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Advances in Iranian Linguistics II
This chapter is in the book Advances in Iranian Linguistics II

Abstract

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.” The exact number of languages in this family is unknown. However, it has been estimated to be around 86 (Eberhard et al. 2019). Although there is no definite agreement about the classification of these languages, they can be roughly divided into four major groups: Northwestern, Southwestern, Northeastern and Southeastern. These languages have several properties in common, but there are also major differences among them in terms of their sound systems, syntactic and morpho-syntactic structures. These variations provide a novel and ideal laboratory for various types of linguistic research.

Abstract

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.” The exact number of languages in this family is unknown. However, it has been estimated to be around 86 (Eberhard et al. 2019). Although there is no definite agreement about the classification of these languages, they can be roughly divided into four major groups: Northwestern, Southwestern, Northeastern and Southeastern. These languages have several properties in common, but there are also major differences among them in terms of their sound systems, syntactic and morpho-syntactic structures. These variations provide a novel and ideal laboratory for various types of linguistic research.

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Introduction 1
  4. Chapter 1. Anaphoric potential of pseudo-incorporated bare objects in Persian 12
  5. Chapter 2. Persian quantifiers and their scope 44
  6. Chapter 3. Why-stripping in Persian 81
  7. Chapter 4. Middle Persian Ezafe 100
  8. Chapter 5. Ezafe and the article 130
  9. Chapter 6. Ezafe as a linking feature within DP 154
  10. Chapter 7. Mood selection in complement clauses in Persian 180
  11. Chapter 8. Three types of verb stem levelling in Tat 210
  12. Chapter 9. A null stem analysis of Persian copular verbs 231
  13. Chapter 10. Semi-anticausatives 263
  14. Chapter 11. The nature and licensing of hi:tʃ elements in Persian 282
  15. Language index 307
  16. Name index 309
  17. Subject index 313
https://doi.org/10.1075/cilt.361.int

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Introduction 1
  4. Chapter 1. Anaphoric potential of pseudo-incorporated bare objects in Persian 12
  5. Chapter 2. Persian quantifiers and their scope 44
  6. Chapter 3. Why-stripping in Persian 81
  7. Chapter 4. Middle Persian Ezafe 100
  8. Chapter 5. Ezafe and the article 130
  9. Chapter 6. Ezafe as a linking feature within DP 154
  10. Chapter 7. Mood selection in complement clauses in Persian 180
  11. Chapter 8. Three types of verb stem levelling in Tat 210
  12. Chapter 9. A null stem analysis of Persian copular verbs 231
  13. Chapter 10. Semi-anticausatives 263
  14. Chapter 11. The nature and licensing of hi:tʃ elements in Persian 282
  15. Language index 307
  16. Name index 309
  17. Subject index 313
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