Semantic Analysis of Prepositions Læ and Wæ in Gurani Kurdish: A Cognitive Approach
Semantic Analysis of Prepositions Læ and Wæ in Gurani Kurdish: A Cognitive Approach

Parsa Bamshadi; Khosrow Gholamalizadeh; shoja tafakkori rezayi

Volume 8, Issue 1 , June 2017, , Pages 21-40

https://doi.org/10.22059/jolr.2017.63133

Abstract
  The present research explores the semantics of two prepositions in Gurani Kurdish, i.e. “læ” and “wæ”. Our approach is cognitive semantics and we ...  Read More
Verb-Preposing in Persian Yes-No Questions: 
A Minimalist Approach
Verb-Preposing in Persian Yes-No Questions: A Minimalist Approach

Shoja Tafakkori Rezayi; Hossein Moghni

Volume 7, Issue 2 , January 2017, , Pages 1-18

https://doi.org/10.22059/jolr.2016.61522

Abstract
  This paper analyzes verb-preposing in yes-no questions in Persian within the Minimalist framework (Chomsky, 1995, 2000a-b). Raghibdoust (1993), in line with Karimi (1989), considers ...  Read More
Negative Concord Item in Azeri Turkic
Negative Concord Item in Azeri Turkic

Shoja Tafakkori Rezayi Tafakkori Rezayi; Nima Erfaniard Erfaniard; Khosrow Gholam Alizade

Volume 7, Issue 1 , September 2016, , Pages 21-36

https://doi.org/10.22059/jolr.2016.59412

Abstract
  In this research Azeri negative sentences are scrutinized with a focus on Negative Concord Item (NCI) s. Linguists such asEnç (1998), Kornfilt (1997) and Progovac (2005) assert ...  Read More
The Syntactic Study of Numeral Classifiers in Persian
The Syntactic Study of Numeral Classifiers in Persian

Shoja Tafakkori Rezayi; Kobra Nazari

Volume 5, Issue 1 , September 2014, , Pages 1-20

https://doi.org/10.22059/jolr.2014.52650

Abstract
  This article investigates the syntactic structure of numeral classifiers in Persian DPs within the minimalist program. Numeral classifiers are morphemes by which nouns are numerated ...  Read More