Trends in Iranian and Persian Linguistics
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Trends in Iranian and Persian Linguistics

  1. 380 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Trends in Iranian and Persian Linguistics

About this book

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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Yes, you can access Trends in Iranian and Persian Linguistics by Alireza Korangy, Corey Miller, Alireza Korangy,Corey Miller in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Languages & Linguistics & Middle Eastern Literary. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Acknowledgments
  5. Dedication
  6. Table of contents
  7. Introduction
  8. 1 The alleged Persian-Germanic connection: A remarkable chapter in the study of Persian from the sixteenth through the nineteenth centuries
  9. 2 Huihuiguan zazi: A New Persian glossary compiled in Ming China
  10. 3 Glimpses of Balochi lexicography: Some iconyms for the landscape and their motivation
  11. 4 On some Iranian secret vocabularies, as evidenced by a fourteenth-century Persian manuscript
  12. 5 Specialization of an ancient object marker in the New Persian of the fifteenth century
  13. 6 Fillers, emphasizers, and other adjuncts in spoken Dari and Pashto
  14. 7 The historically unmotivated majhul vowel as a significant areal dialectological feature
  15. 8 Variability in Persian forms of address as represented in the works of Iranian playwrights
  16. 9 Some linguistic indicators of sociocultural formality in Persian
  17. 10 Spoken vs. written Persian: Is Persian diglossic?
  18. 11 Accounting for *yek ta in Persian
  19. 12 The associative plural and related constructions in Persian
  20. 13 Revisiting the status of -eš in Persian
  21. 14 ‘Difficult’ and ‘easy’ in Ossetic
  22. 15 Possessive construction in Kurdish
  23. 16 To bring the distant near: On deixis in Iranian oral literature
  24. 17 Extracting semantic similarity from Persian texts
  25. List of contributors
  26. Index