Advances in Iranian Linguistics

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ADVANCES IN IRANIAN LINGUISTICS Editorial page Title page Copyright page Table of contents Chapter 1. Advances in Iranian linguistics: An introduction 1. Iranian languages as a stable diversity hub 2. Classification of Iranian languages 3. Iranian linguistics 3.1 Diachronic and typological studies 3.2 Modern studies References Chapter 2. Syntactic and semantic constraints on pronoun and anaphor resolution in Persian 1. Introduction 2. Core Persian binding data 3. Multiple constraints 4. Long distance anaphors 5. Conclusion Funding information Acknowledgements References Chapter 3. A multi-dimensional approach to classification of Iran’s languages 1. Introduction 1.1 Language mapping and atlases of Iran 1.2 The Atlas of the Languages of Iran (ALI) 1.3 The structure of this chapter 2. An initial working classification of Iran’s languages 2.1 Inventory of language varieties 2.2 Construction of classification trees 2.3 Backgrounding assessments of ‘language’ vs ‘dialect’ 2.4 Contribution and limitations of this initial classification 3. Overview of existing language classification models 4. A multi-dimensional language relation web for the languages of Iran 5. Differentiation and visualization of links between language varieties 5.1 Linguistic relation through genealogical inheritance 5.2 Structural similarity through language contact 5.3 Association through ethnic identification 6. Summary and prospects Funding Acknowledgements References Chapter 4. The additive particle in Persian: A case of morphological homophony between syntax and pragmatics 1. Introduction 2. Inflectional and derivational homophony in Persian 3. Discourse markers and discourse particles 4. The additive marker in conversational Persian 4.1 The syntactic distribution of the additive marker 4.2 The meaning of the additive marker 4.3 The form of the additive marker 5. Conclusion Acknowledgements References Chapter 5. The pronoun-to-agreement cycle in Iranian: Subjects do, objects don’t 1. Introduction 2. The agreement cycle according to van Gelderen (2011b) 2.1 The agreement cycle with subject pronouns 2.2 The agreement cycle with object pronouns 3. Clitic pronouns and agreement in Iranian 3.1 Clitic pronouns indexing subjects (A) 3.2 Clitic pronouns indexing objects 4. Conclusions References Chapter 6. The suffix that makes Persian nouns unique 1. Introduction 2. Bare nominal vs. specific definite 3. Simple indefinite vs. specific indefinite 4. Specificity 5. Common ground effects 6. Analysis 7. Conclusion References Chapter 7. The meaning of the Persian object marker rā: What it is not, and what it (probably) is 1. Introduction 2. What rā is not 2.1 Topics 2.2 Specificity 3. What rā (probably) is 4. Formal analysis 5. Discussion Abbreviations References Appendix Chapter 8. Topic agreement, experiencer constructions, and the weight of clitics 1. Introduction 2. Reanalysis of enclitic pronouns as agreement markers 2.1 Keeping pronouns and agreement markers apart 2.2 Interim results 3. Experiencer constructions in Modern Persian 4. Historical background of experiencer constructions 5. Summary Funding Abbreviations References Chapter 9. Another look at Persian rā: A single formal analysis of a multi-functional morpheme 1. Introduction 2. Data 3. Theoretical background 4. Analysis 5. Prediction 6. Classical Modern Persian 7. Concluding remarks References Chapter 10. The Ezafe construction revisited 1. Introduction 2. The Ezafe phenomenon 3. Analyses of Ezafe 3.1 Semantic analyses 3.2 Ezafe as a morphological affix 3.3 Ezafe as a case-marker 3.4 Predictions of the case-marking analysis 4. Concluding remarks References Chapter 11. Quantitative meter in Persian folk songs and pop lyrics 1. Introduction 2. Meters in Classical Persian poetry 2.1 Correspondence criteria in Classical Persian poetry 3. Meters in Persian folk songs and pop lyrics 3.1 Optional vowel shortening 3.2 The origins of optional vowel shortening 3.3 More deviations from Classical Persian metrics 4. Alternative theories 4.1 Falsifiability 4.2 Poems claimed to lack quantitative meter 5. Corpus data 6. Conclusion References Chapter 12. Stripping structures with negation in Persian 1. Introduction 2. Context of occurrence and interpretation 3. Information structure 4. The nature of negative marker 4.1 Either-and neither conjoining test 4.2 Adverbs 4.3 Focusing adverb 5. Analysis 5.1 Analysis of Polarity Stripping and Negative Stripping 5.2 Analysis of Pseudo-stripping 6. Conclusion Acknowledgements References Chapter 13. Oblique marking and adpositional constructions in Tat: A mosaic of dialectal convergence and divergence 1. Introduction 2. Oblique marking in Tat 2.1 Differential object marking 2.2 Experiencer function 2.3 Possessive constructions 2.4 Possessive predication 3. Adpositional constructions in Tat 3.1 Simple adpositions 3.2 Compound adpositions 3.3 Placeholder construction 4. Conclusion Acknowledgements List of abbreviations Tat corpus bibliography References Author index Languages index Subject index