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Linguistic typology
Lexical Field and Language Universals Analysis of Body Parts in Persian and English: A Typological Approach

Vali Rezai; Mahdeih Abbaspour

Articles in Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available Online from 25 September 2024

Abstract
  This study employs a typological approach to examine the terminology used for lower body parts in Persian and English. The aim is to identify commonalities and divergences in the naming and categorization of human body parts, while also assessing the validity of proposed linguistic universals in this ...  Read More

Linguistic typology
The Representation of Body Names in Expressing Emotions: A Typological View

Vali Rezai; Tahereh Samenian

Volume 15, Issue 3 , December 2023, , Pages 27-1

Abstract
  Lexical typology is related to the specific ways in which languages incorporate meaning into words. In this way, lexical typology, which deals with words, can be considered a sub-branch of semantic typology. Recently, studies in cognitive linguistics have shown how body parts act as a source for conceptualizing ...  Read More

Syntax
Object Complement in Persian

Maryam Khamse Ashari; Rezvan Motavallian; Vali Rezai

Volume 15, Issue 2 , September 2023, , Pages 29-53

Abstract
  Object complement construction as one of the most important and challenging categories of grammar has been noticed by linguists and grammarians from past to present. The present study investigates the Object complement construction based on three basic hypotheses: Small Clause Theory, Predication Theory, ...  Read More

Linguistic typology
Persian Adverbs in the Typological Prototype View of Parts of Speech

Vali Rezai; Najmeh Khedri

Volume 14, Issue 4 , March 2023, , Pages 101-125

Abstract
  Adverbs are among those complicated subject's different aspects of which have been investigated throughout history. However, linguists have not reached an agreement on the diverse issues related to adverbs, from its definition to the fact that whether it should be considered as a lexical category in ...  Read More

Linguistic typology
Typological hierarchies and object omission in Persian

Faezeh Salimi; Vali Rezai; Mohammad Amouzadeh

Volume 14, Issue 1 , April 2022, , Pages 135-157

Abstract
  Object omission construction is a valency-reduction process in which a transitive verb appears without its object and is used as an intransitive one. However, the addressee is able to understand the meaning of the objectless sentence. The considered type of object omission in this paper is context-independent, ...  Read More

A Functional-Typological Approach to Perfect Constructions in Persian

Mansour Rahimifar; Vali Rezai; Rezvan Motavalian

Volume 11, Issue 1 , May 2019, , Pages 111-139

Abstract
  Extended Abstract Introduction This article is an attempt to illustrate a comprehensive functional-typological study of two perfect constructions in modern Persian. In regard to these forms, there has been a kind of intricate complexity and difficulty that have occupied the minds of the grammarians ...  Read More

Locative Alternations in Placement Verbs and Its Causes: A Functional Analysis

Zahra Ghane; Vali Rezai

Volume 9, Issue 17 , July 2018, , Pages 1-19

Abstract
  Extended abstract 1- Introduction Locative alternation is a type of multiple argument realization of three-argument transitive verbs involving variable syntactic expression of the arguments. The present paper is, then, an attempt to find an account for this kind of alternation in Persian placement ...  Read More

A Syntactic and Semantic Investigation of Static Verbs in Persian

Vali Rezaee

Volume 4, Issue 7 , September 2013

Abstract
  The category of Verb as the nucleus of sentence has a significant importance in grammar. This grammatical category has specific semantic and syntactic characteristics in different languages. In Role and Reference Grammar as a functional grammar, predicates are classified into five classes including states, ...  Read More

A Typological Study of Causative Constructions in Persian

Vali Rezai

Volume 3, Issue 4 , January 2012

Abstract
  Causative constructions play an important role in the mental and linguistic system of human beings. The methodology that is used in this paper for studying causative constructions in Persian is the combination of the Morphology-based approach and Song’s model (1996, 2001). Emphasizing the causer NP ...  Read More