The Interaction of Modality, Aspect and Negation in Persian

This dissertation investigates the verbal system of Persian and is focused on the interaction of modality, tense, aspect and negation in this language. The dissertation challenges the idea that the syntactic structure maps on to the semantic interpretation or vice-versa.It is argued that modals are...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hojatollah Taleghani, Azita
Other Authors: Harley, Heidi
Language:EN
Published: The University of Arizona. 2006
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10150/196082