Volume 15 (2023)
Volume 14 (2022)
Volume 13 (2021)
Volume 12 (2021)
Volume 11 (2020)
Volume 10 (2019)
Volume 9 (2017)
Volume 8 (2016)
Volume 7 (2015)
Volume 6 (2014)
Volume 5 (2013)
Volume 4 (2013)
Volume 3 (2012)
Volume 2 (2010)
Volume 1 (2009)
Linguistics
Flexibility in Persian Idiomatic Expressions: The case of "Hand-Idioms"

Sasan Maleki; Mohammad Rasekhmahand

Volume 15, Issue 1 , May 2023, , Pages 95-124

Abstract
  Flexibility in idioms may occur at different lexical, morpho-syntactic and syntactic levels. In flexible idioms, the core meaning remains unchanged. This descriptive-analytical study aims to investigate flexibility in Persian Idioms at the above-mentioned levels. The corpus contains 427 examples containing ...  Read More

Motivating factors of postposing in Persian

Mohammad rasekhmahand; Maryam ghiyasvand

Volume 5, Issue 9 , July 2013, , Pages 27-47

Abstract
  Postposing is a feature of spoken language. It is a process that postposes a preverbal constituent to a position after the verb, without changing the overall meaning of the sentence. In this study we focus on this linguistic phenomenon and its relation to factors such as grammatical weight, definiteness, ...  Read More

A Functional Account of Ellipsis in Persian Co-ordinate Sentences

Mohammad Rasekh Mahand

Volume 3, Issue 5 , January 2012

Abstract
  Different languages are classified in different types according to different elliptical positions in coordinate sentences. In the following, I shall briefly outline this typology and then show the status of Persian in this hierarchy. Moreover, I will demonstrate that two functional factors; ease of ...  Read More

Differential Object Marking; another Look at Persian “Ra”

Mohammad Rasekh Mahand

Volume 2, Issue 2 , October 2010

Abstract
  In the literature of differential object marking (DOM), it is argued that animacy and definiteness are the two main distinguishing features in marking or not marking direct objects. Objects high in definiteness and animacy clines are more likely to be case marked. Using a functional-typological approach, ...  Read More