404 Pages
    by Routledge

    404 Pages
    by Routledge

    Persian, or Farsi, is one of the world's oldest languages. Dating back to the sixth century B.C., it is spoken today by over forty million people in Iran and 5 million in Afghanistan. Now available in paperback for the first time, this comprehensive grammar of Persian provides detailed coverage of all its linguistic aspects, including the syntax, morphology and phonology.

    Introduction, CHAPTER 1. SYNTAX, 1.1 GENERAL PROPERTIES, 1.2 STRUCTURAL QUESTIONS, 1.3 COORDINATION, 1.4 NEGATION, 1.5 ANAPHORA, 1.6 REFLEXIVES, 1.7 RECIPROCALS, 1.8 COMPARISON, 1.9 EQUATIVE, `1.10 POSSESSION, 1.11 EMPHASIS, 1.12 TOPIC, 1.13 HEAVY SHIFT, 1.14 OTHER MOVEMENT RULES, 1.15 MINOR SENTENCE TYPES, 1.16 WORD CLASSES, CHAOTER 2 MORPHOLOGY, 2.1 INFECTIONAL MORPHOLOGY, 2.2 DERIVATIONAL MORPHOLOGY, CHAPTER 3 PHONOLOGY, 3.1 PHONOLOGICAL UNITS, 3.2 PHONOTACTICS, 3.4 SUPRASEGMENTALS, 3.4 MORPHONOLOGY (SEGMENTAL), 3.5 SUPRASEGMENTAL MORPHPHONOLOGY, CHAPTER 4 IDEAPHONES, 4.1 IDEAPHONES, 4.2 INTERJECTIONS, CHAPTER 5 LEXICON, 5.1 STRUCTUTRAL SEMATICS FIELD, 5.2 BASIC VOCABULARY.

    Biography

    Shahrzad Mahootian