Volume 16 (2024)
Volume 15 (2023)
Volume 14 (2022)
Volume 13 (2021)
Volume 12 (2021)
Volume 11 (2020)
Volume 10 (2019)
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Volume 8 (2016)
Volume 7 (2015)
Volume 6 (2014)
Volume 5 (2013)
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Syntax
Ellipsis Phenomena within the Clause; A Phase-Based Approach

Shabnam Majidi; Fatemeh Bahrami; Mazdak Anoushe

Volume 16, Issue 1 , August 2024, , Pages 151-185

Abstract
  Ellipsis phenomena or deletions, in traditional generative terms, involve a number of cases where otherwise expected syntactic material goes missing under some conditions. How to formulate a generalization that can explain all types of deletion has been a central question since the dawn of Principle ...  Read More

Persian Language, a Language without Parasitic Gap

SEYYED MAHDI SADATI NOOSHABADI; Mehdi Sabzevari; Narjes Banou Sabouri; Mazdak Anoushe

Volume 12, Issue 1 , January 2021, , Pages 1-29

Abstract
  In this paper the parasitic gap in Persian language is explained by using the explanations provided by two proposed approaches in the Minimalist Programme namely as “Sideward Movement” and “Symmetric Merge”. In “Sideward Movement” the parasitic gap is considered as ...  Read More

Gapping and Sluicing in Persian: A Minimalist Approach

Mazdak Anoushe

Volume 10, Issue 18 , August 2018, , Pages 101-123

Abstract
  Extended abstract Introduction The omission of linguistic objects from derivation, generally called ellipsis, has long attracted the attention of linguists. Ellipsis comes in different forms, though it is usually possible when some types of antecedents are available; in the form of either linguistic ...  Read More

Null Expletive Pronoun: A Minimalist Approach‎

Mazdak Anoushe

Volume 6, Issue 11 , July 2015, , Pages 29-53

Abstract
  Traditional work on pro-drop languages identified a set of parametric values ‎associated with the availability of null subjects, including the presence of null ‎expletive subjects. In the same vein, but more within the framework of Minimalist ‎Program, I will discuss while referential subjects ...  Read More