Expletives in Modern Persian

It has generally been argued that Persian does not include dummy elements called expletives, in spite of the existence of the morpheme ǐn which shows the behavior of an expletive in specific constructions. The morpheme is not a part of the argument structure and has no meaning. In Persian, which is...

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Main Author: Abolfazl MOSAFFA JAHROMI
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Znanstvena založba Filozofske fakultete Univerze v Ljubljani (Ljubljana University Press, Faculty of Arts) 2011-12-01
Series:Acta Linguistica Asiatica
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Online Access:http://revije.ff.uni-lj.si/ala/article/viewFile/31/50