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Volume 11 (2020)
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A Study of the Differences Between the Kurmanji Dialect of Biglar and Other Kurmanji Dialects of the Neighboring Villages

Javad Ghanbari Beglar; Mahmoud Elyasi; Ali Izanloo

Volume 5, Issue 8 , April 2013, Pages 1-19

Abstract
  Kurmanji is probably the most well known variety of Kurdish Language. Apart from such countries as Turkey, Iraq, Syria, and some areas in western Iran, it is spoken in Khorasan-e Shomali and Khorasan-e Razavi Provinces in north-east Iran. The residents of Biglar –a village near Quchan in north-west ...  Read More

A Cognitive Analysis of Some Metaphors of the Wotd del in Sa'di’s Bustan

Soleiman Ghaderi; Manouchehr Tavangar

Volume 5, Issue 8 , April 2013, Pages 21-51

Abstract
  The present study tries to analyze some conceptual metaphors in the Bustan, using insights from cultural linguistics. The data analyzed shows that through a cultural model, the word del, productively, embodies the mind of Persian speakers via conceptualizing emotions (love, happiness, and grief), mental ...  Read More

The Nature of Verb Lexical Aspect and Its Relation to-rā/rē Non-Active Morpheme in Sorani Kurdish

Fatemeh Daneshpazhouh; Gholamhossein Karimi-Dustan; Zeynab Mohammad Ebrahimi; Belqies Roshan

Volume 5, Issue 8 , April 2013, Pages 53-80

Abstract
  The present paper examines the nature of verb lexical aspect and its relation to -rā/rē non-active morpheme in Sorani Kurdish based on Vendler (1956 & 1967) and Croft (2010). The research method is analytic-descriptive. The article shows that although some verbs have the same aspectual features, they ...  Read More

An Investigation of Linguistic Signs in Interaction with other Communicative Signs

Fatemeh Nemati

Volume 5, Issue 8 , April 2013, Pages 81-102

Abstract
  Adopting a humanistic, communicative-based approach to semiotics, this paper aims at investigating the status of linguistic signs and their interaction with other communicative signs. The status of linguistic sign is first studied in semiotic theories spanning ancient, middle ages and modern era. Based ...  Read More

A Typological Study of Clitics in Persian

Mohammad Amin Sorahi; Batoul Alinezhad

Volume 5, Issue 8 , April 2013, Pages 103-130

Abstract
  In linguistics morphology, clitics are considered as a set of special units which cannot be categorized under free or bound morphemes, and therefore, seriously question the traditional view of dividing morphemes into the two groups of free and bound morphemes. Clitics represent some characteristics of ...  Read More

Surveying Force Image Schemas in Some Proverbs of Persian Language

Seyyedeh Maryam Fazaeli; Shahla Sharifi

Volume 5, Issue 8 , April 2013, Pages 131-144

Abstract
  Some Persian proverbs concern a problem and how to encounter it. The present paper seeks to examine such proverbs. Findings indicate that in the analyzed proverbs, force image schemas have three options. In the first option, a problem is depicted as a barrier that cannot be removed. In these proverbs, ...  Read More