Hierarchies in Clause Linkage and Complex Sentence Continuum in Spoken Persian

Yegane, Fateme; Sasani, Farhad

doi:10.22059/jolr.2024.366685.666863

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

Fateme Yegane ¹
Farhad Sasani ²

¹ Ph.D. Candidate Linguistics Department, Faculty of Literature, Alzahra University, Tehran, Iran.

² Associate Professor, Linguistics Department, Faculty of Literature, Alzahra University, Tehran, Iran

https://doi.org/10.22059/jolr.2024.366685.666863

Abstract

The inadequacy of previous definitions of the concepts of subordinate or dependent clauses, and coordinate or consistent clauses, along with terminological Inconsistency, and considering all sentences containing relative clauses, complement clauses, and adverbial clauses in their construction as complex sentence in Persian language on one hand, and neglecting the possibility of hierarchical nature of clause linkage on the other hand causes a lot of dispersion in the definition of clause linking and complex sentence in previous research. In Persian language, in many cases, especially in speech, linkers (conjunctions) are not overt, which make the coordinate clauses and subordinate clauses alike on one hand and similar to independent clauses on the other hand. Conjunctions or linkers in clause linkage are also place of dispute, covering an inconsistent collection its items clearly different from each other. To address these issues, in a descriptive approach, a spoken corpus of 4500 minutes of various programs of different television and radio channels of National Media of Iran, in the period of Khordad 1400 to 1401 were examined. For data analysis in this research, no priori theoretical framework was used, but based on the collected data, with a prototypical and hierarchical approach, a model proposed for the study of clause linkage and complex sentence in Persian language. To achieve this goal, definition for different kind of clause linkage presented in the first place, then two concepts of “Clause connection” and “clause relation” were distinguished. And a triple distinction was established between intra-clausal linkage (within the same clause), inter-clausal linkage (between two clauses), and beyond-clause linkage. The concepts of coordination, dependency and subordination, then re-defined. The linkers utilizing in each linkage are also specified. Then by determining same parameters for describing both the coordinate and subordinate clauses, hierarchies in clause linkage and complex sentence continuum in spoken Persian presented.

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Volume 14, Issue 2 - Serial Number 27
March 2024
Pages 161-192

Hierarchies in Clause Linkage and Complex Sentence Continuum in Spoken Persian

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Volume 14, Issue 2 - Serial Number 27March 2024Pages 161-192

Volume 14, Issue 2 - Serial Number 27
March 2024
Pages 161-192