Trends in Iranian and Persian Linguistics

Published by De Gruyter Mouton 2018

Trends in Iranian and Persian Linguistics

Edited by: Alireza Korangy and Corey Miller

Volume 313 in the series Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM]

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110455793

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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.

Author / Editor information

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

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	v
Table of contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	ix
1 The alleged Persian-Germanic connection: A remarkable chapter in the study of Persian from the sixteenth through the nineteenth centuries¹ Toon Van Hal Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
2 Huihuiguan zazi: A New Persian glossary compiled in Ming China Shinji Ido Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	21
3 Glimpses of Balochi lexicography: Some iconyms for the landscape and their motivation Adriano V. Rossi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	53
4 On some Iranian secret vocabularies, as evidenced by a fourteenth-century Persian manuscript Martin Schwartz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	69
5 Specialization of an ancient object marker in the New Persian of the fifteenth century¹ Agnès Lenepveu-Hotz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	81
6 Fillers, emphasizers, and other adjuncts in spoken Dari and Pashto Lutz Rzehak Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	101
7 The historically unmotivated majhul vowel as a significant areal dialectological feature Youli Ioannesyan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	119
8 Variability in Persian forms of address as represented in the works of Iranian playwrights Zohreh R. Eslami, Mohammad Abdolhosseini and Shadi Dini Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	135
9 Some linguistic indicators of sociocultural formality in Persian Hooman Saeli and Corey Miller Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	163
10 Spoken vs. written Persian: Is Persian diglossic? Behrooz Mahmoodi-Bakhtiari Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	183
11 Accounting for *yek ta in Persian Lewis Gebhardt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	213
12 The associative plural and related constructions in Persian Jila Ghomeshi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	233
13 Revisiting the status of -eš in Persian¹ Shahrzad Mahootian and Lewis Gebhardt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	263
14 ‘Difficult’ and ‘easy’ in Ossetic Arseniy Vydrin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	277
15 Possessive construction in Kurdish Z. A. Yusupova Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	297
16 To bring the distant near: On deixis in Iranian oral literature Carina Jahani Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	309
17 Extracting semantic similarity from Persian texts Katarzyna Marszalek-Kowalewska Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	339
List of contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	363
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	365

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
Audience: Linguists, Phonologists, Syntacticians, Semanticists, Phoneticians, Historical Linguists, Persianists
Pages
- Front matter: 12
- Main content: 368
Keywords: Persian; Iranian; Linguistics

eBook

Published: January 22, 2018
ISBN: 9783110455793

Hardcover

Published: January 22, 2018
ISBN: 9783110453461