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Agreement Restrictions in Persian / Anousha Sedighi.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Iranian Studies SeriesPublisher: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2010]Copyright date: ©2010Description: 1 online resource (144 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9789400600157
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 491.555
LOC classification:
  • PK6317 .S424 2010
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Iranian Studies Series -- Acknowledgements -- Table of Contents -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Animacy and Agreement Restriction in Persian -- Chapter 3: Psychological Verbs and Multiple Subject Constructions -- Chapter 4: Psychological Verbs in Persian and Applied Arguments -- Chapter 5: Concluding Remarks -- References -- List of Abbreviations
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.

Frontmatter -- Iranian Studies Series -- Acknowledgements -- Table of Contents -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Animacy and Agreement Restriction in Persian -- Chapter 3: Psychological Verbs and Multiple Subject Constructions -- Chapter 4: Psychological Verbs in Persian and Applied Arguments -- Chapter 5: Concluding Remarks -- References -- List of Abbreviations

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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.

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In English.

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