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- Agreement Restrictions in Persian
- Book
- 2010
- Published by: Leiden University Press
summary
“Agreement Restrictions in Persian” is the first comprehensive attempt to tackle the issue of verbal agreement in Persian from a cross-linguistic point of view. Persian is a field of research within theoretical linguistics that is yet to be sufficiently explored. This book adopts the Minimalist Program of Chomsky (1995-2004) which is at the forefront of recent theories of formal syntax and applies it to the Persian language. Although it is commonly believed that in Persian the verb agrees with the subject, several constructions seem to constrain this obligatory rule. Adopting the framework of Distributed Morphology, the author argues that agreement is in fact obtained with the plural inanimate subjects but a morphological rule may block the result. Unlike the previous analyses which consider the experiencer as the subject of the psychological constructions, the author argues that the psychological state is the subject of the sentence. The findings of this book not only contribute to better understanding of Persian syntax, but also have important implications for grammar theory
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgements
- pp. v-vi
- Table of Contents
- pp. vii-viii
- Chapter 1: Introduction
- pp. 1-20
- Chapter 5: Concluding Remarks
- pp. 121-122
- References
- pp. 123-132
- List of Abbreviations
- p. 133
Additional Information
ISBN
9789400600157
Related ISBN(s)
9789087280932
MARC Record
OCLC
966767683
Pages
136
Launched on MUSE
2017-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No