Syntax
Ahoo Alvand; Zeinab Mohammad Ebrahimi Jahromi
Volume 14, Issue 2 , July 2022, , Pages 181-201
Abstract
Compound verbs are one of the most frequent types of verbs in Persian and have been the subject of many researches. This type of verb is actually a compound predicate that consists of a verbal component and one (or more) non-verbal component that, together, express a meaning. In this article, we provide ...
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Compound verbs are one of the most frequent types of verbs in Persian and have been the subject of many researches. This type of verb is actually a compound predicate that consists of a verbal component and one (or more) non-verbal component that, together, express a meaning. In this article, we provide a model for the structure of compound verbs in Persian based on the theory of Distributed Morphology. It becomes clear that in the structure of compound verbs, an abstract root is considered for each component. These roots have no syntactic category and phonetic essence and are only a chain of semantic features. At first, roots merge in their base position according to Minimalism Program and pass the known syntactic processes in the theory. After that, they undergo post-syntactic processes on the basis of Distributed Morphology. Finally, the syntactic nodes are prepared for the insertion of Vocabulary Items (VI). It is shown that the root related to the non-verbal component is merged in the head of the predicate group (PredP) and bears the main burden of predication in the sentence. This group is in sister position to the vP. The verbal component of the compound verb is merged into the head of vP.
Zeinab Mohammad Ebrahimi Jahromi; Zahra Karimibavaryani; Aliye Kordzaferanlo; Yadollah Mansouri
Volume 13, Issue 1 , December 2021, , Pages 27-54
Abstract
This study is concerned with the factors affecting the direction of assimilation in Iranian south western languages based on Sibawayh approach. To do this, five different assimilation processes were studied in these languages. According to Dabirmoghadam (2013), the Iranian south western group of languages ...
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This study is concerned with the factors affecting the direction of assimilation in Iranian south western languages based on Sibawayh approach. To do this, five different assimilation processes were studied in these languages. According to Dabirmoghadam (2013), the Iranian south western group of languages is divided into 7 languages which are Farsi, Davani, Lori, Delvari, Larestani, Laraki and Bakhtiari. The data were gathered using several fieldwork and printed sources. Among the achievements is, the dominance of inherent features in assimilation which inherited to some consonants related to their place and manner of articulation as “inherent strength”, such as [+strident] and [+nasal]. The other dominant factor is the “positional strength” of “onset” rather than “coda” which determines the direction in assimilation. While these two factors, compete in a context, no assimilation occurs and “neutralization” will take place. Another achievement is that in these studied languages, the assimilation processes mainly occur progressively than regressively.
