Trends in Iranian and Persian linguistics / edited by Alireza Korangy, Corey Miller.

Other author Korangy, Alireza.
Other author Miller, Corey (Corey Andrew)
Format Electronic
Publication InfoBerlin : De Gruyter Mouton, [2018]
Descriptionxii, 368 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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SeriesTrends in linguistics. Studies and monographs, 1861-4302 ; volume 313
Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs, 1861-4302 ; volume 313. UNAUTHORIZED
Contents Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- The alleged Persian-Germanic connection : a remarkable chapter in the study of Persian from the sixteenth through the nineteenth centuries / Toon Van Hal -- Huihuiguan zazi : a new Persian glossary compiled in Ming China / Shinji Ido -- Glimpses of Balochi lexicography : some iconyms for the landscape and their motivation / Adriano V. Rossi -- On some Iranian secret vocabularies, as evidenced by a fourteenth-century Persian manuscript / Martin Schwartz -- Specialization of an ancient object marker in the new Persian of the fifteenth century / Agnès Lenepveu-Hotz -- Fillers, emphasizers, and other adjuncts in spoken Dari and Pashto / Lutz Rzehak -- The historically unmotivated majhul vowel as a significant areal dialectological feature / Youli Ioannesyan -- Variability in Persian forms of address as represented in the works of Iranian playwrights / Zohreh R. Eslami, Mohammad Abdolhosseini, and Shadi Dini -- Some linguistic indicators of sociocultural formality in Persian / Hooman Saeli and Corey Miller -- Spoken vs. written Persian : is Persian diglossic? / Behrooz Mahmoodi-Bakhtiari -- Accounting for *yek ta in Persian / Lewis Gebhardt -- The associative plural and related constructions in Persian / Jila Ghomeshi -- Revisiting the status of -es̆ in Persian / Shahrzad Mahootian and Lewis Gebhardt -- 'Difficult' and 'easy' in Ossetic / Arseniy Vydrin -- Possessive construction in Kurdish / Z. A. Yusupova -- To bring the distant near : on deixis in Iranian oral literature / Carina Jahani -- Extracting semantic similarity from Persian texts / Katarzyna Marszalek-Kowalewska -- List of contributors -- Index.
Abstract "This set of essays highlights the state of the art in the linguistics of Iranian languages. The contributions span the full range of linguistic inquiry, including pragmatics, syntax, semantics, phonology/phonetics, lexicography, historical linguistics and poetics and covering a wide set of Iranian languages including Persian, Balochi, Kurdish and Ossetian. This book will engage both the active scholar in the field as well as linguists from other fields seeking to assess the latest developments in Iranian linguistics."-- Publisher's website.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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LCCN 2018285734
ISBN9783110453461 (hardcover : acid-free paper)

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