7 The historically unmotivated majhul vowel as a significant areal dialectological feature

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Acknowledgments v
3. Table of contents vii
4. Introduction ix
5. 1 The alleged Persian-Germanic connection: A remarkable chapter in the study of Persian from the sixteenth through the nineteenth centuries¹ 1
6. 2 Huihuiguan zazi: A New Persian glossary compiled in Ming China 21
7. 3 Glimpses of Balochi lexicography: Some iconyms for the landscape and their motivation 53
8. 4 On some Iranian secret vocabularies, as evidenced by a fourteenth-century Persian manuscript 69
9. 5 Specialization of an ancient object marker in the New Persian of the fifteenth century¹ 81
10. 6 Fillers, emphasizers, and other adjuncts in spoken Dari and Pashto 101
11. 7 The historically unmotivated majhul vowel as a significant areal dialectological feature 119
12. 8 Variability in Persian forms of address as represented in the works of Iranian playwrights 135
13. 9 Some linguistic indicators of sociocultural formality in Persian 163
14. 10 Spoken vs. written Persian: Is Persian diglossic? 183
15. 11 Accounting for *yek ta in Persian 213
16. 12 The associative plural and related constructions in Persian 233
17. 13 Revisiting the status of -eš in Persian¹ 263
18. 14 ‘Difficult’ and ‘easy’ in Ossetic 277
19. 15 Possessive construction in Kurdish 297
20. 16 To bring the distant near: On deixis in Iranian oral literature 309
21. 17 Extracting semantic similarity from Persian texts 339
22. List of contributors 363
23. Index 365