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Trends in Iranian and Persian Linguistics

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This set of essays highlights the state of the art in the linguistics of Iranian languages. The contributions span the full range of linguistic inquiry, including pragmatics, syntax, semantics, phonology/phonetics, lexicography, historical linguistics and poetics and covering a wide set of Iranian languages including Persian, Balochi, Kurdish and Ossetian. This book will engage both the active scholar in the field as well as linguists from other fields seeking to assess the latest developments in Iranian linguistics.

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Alireza Korangy, President, Societas Philologica Persica; Corey Miller, The MITRE Corporation, McLean.

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    Frontmatter

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    Acknowledgments

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    Table of contents

    vii
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    Introduction

    ix
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    1 The alleged Persian-Germanic connection: A remarkable chapter in the study of Persian from the sixteenth through the nineteenth centuries1

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    Toon Van Hal
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    2 Huihuiguan zazi: A New Persian glossary compiled in Ming China

    21
    Shinji Ido
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    3 Glimpses of Balochi lexicography: Some iconyms for the landscape and their motivation

    53
    Adriano V. Rossi
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    4 On some Iranian secret vocabularies, as evidenced by a fourteenth-century Persian manuscript

    69
    Martin Schwartz
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    5 Specialization of an ancient object marker in the New Persian of the fifteenth century1

    81
    Agnès Lenepveu-Hotz
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    6 Fillers, emphasizers, and other adjuncts in spoken Dari and Pashto

    101
    Lutz Rzehak
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    7 The historically unmotivated majhul vowel as a significant areal dialectological feature

    119
    Youli Ioannesyan
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    8 Variability in Persian forms of address as represented in the works of Iranian playwrights

    135
    Zohreh R. Eslami, Mohammad Abdolhosseini and Shadi Dini
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    9 Some linguistic indicators of sociocultural formality in Persian

    163
    Hooman Saeli and Corey Miller
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    10 Spoken vs. written Persian: Is Persian diglossic?

    183
    Behrooz Mahmoodi-Bakhtiari
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    11 Accounting for *yek ta in Persian

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    Lewis Gebhardt
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    12 The associative plural and related constructions in Persian

    233
    Jila Ghomeshi
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    13 Revisiting the status of -eš in Persian1

    263
    Shahrzad Mahootian and Lewis Gebhardt
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    14 ‘Difficult’ and ‘easy’ in Ossetic

    277
    Arseniy Vydrin
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    15 Possessive construction in Kurdish

    297
    Z. A. Yusupova
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    16 To bring the distant near: On deixis in Iranian oral literature

    309
    Carina Jahani
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    17 Extracting semantic similarity from Persian texts

    339
    Katarzyna Marszalek-Kowalewska
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    List of contributors

    363
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    Index

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eBook published on:
January 22, 2018
eBook ISBN:
9783110455793
Hardcover published on:
January 22, 2018
Hardcover ISBN:
9783110453461
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Front matter:
12
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368
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110455793
eBook ISBN: 9783110455793
Hardcover ISBN: 9783110453461
Keywords for this book
Persian; Iranian; Linguistics
Audience(s) for this book
Linguists, Phonologists, Syntacticians, Semanticists, Phoneticians, Historical Linguists, Persianists
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