Research Paper
The Position of NegP and Licensing N-words in Persian: A Distributed Morphology Approach
The Position of NegP and Licensing N-words in Persian: A Distributed Morphology Approach

Mazdak Anushe

Volume 8, Issue 1 , June 2017, Pages 1-20

https://doi.org/10.22059/jolr.2017.63132

Abstract
  The syntactic expression of sentential negation has given rise to a lot of research in most linguistic frameworks. During the last few decades of research in generative grammar, studies ...  Read More
Research Paper
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
Research Paper
Lexical Aspect in Persian Deadjectival Complex Predicates
Lexical Aspect in Persian Deadjectival Complex Predicates

Hassan Barzegar; Gholamhosain Karimi doustan

Volume 8, Issue 1 , June 2017, Pages 41-57

https://doi.org/10.22059/jolr.2017.63134

Abstract
  In this paper, we will study the lexical aspect in Persian deadjectival complex predicates. Hence, we firstly review different kinds of aspect. Then, we will succinctly review three ...  Read More
Research Paper
Truncated Impersonal Constructions in Persian: A Cognitive Approach
Truncated Impersonal Constructions in Persian: A Cognitive Approach

Sahar Bahrami-Khorshid; Arsalan Golfam; Sedigheh Saeedizadeh

Volume 8, Issue 1 , June 2017, Pages 59-77

https://doi.org/10.22059/jolr.2017.63135

Abstract
  The main purpose of this paper is to study the truncated impersonal constructions in Persian within the framework of Cognitive Grammar. This type is made up of a modal and a truncated ...  Read More
Research Paper
Semantics Relations of Persian Verb
Semantics Relations of Persian Verb "gereftan": Filmore's Frame Semantic (1997)

Mansoureh Delaramifar; pakzad yousefian; mohammad allahbakhash; Abbasali Ahangar

Volume 8, Issue 1 , June 2017, Pages 79-98

https://doi.org/10.22059/jolr.2017.63136

Abstract
  Since the verbs are the most important grammatical category in a language and actions, activities and states are denoted with the help of them, the goal of this project is to study ...  Read More
Research Paper
Deictic Projection of Present Perfect in Persian: A Semantic Analysis
Deictic Projection of Present Perfect in Persian: A Semantic Analysis

Mohammad Amoozadeh; Masoume Dianati; Zoleikha Azimdokht

Volume 8, Issue 1 , June 2017, Pages 99-116

https://doi.org/10.22059/jolr.2017.63137

Abstract
  This study provides a semantic analysis of the present perfect of Persian expressing immediate and definite futurity. This phenomenon will be tackled in terms of deictic projection. ...  Read More
Research Paper
Vowel Hiatus in Surani Kurdish
Vowel Hiatus in Surani Kurdish

Vahid Sadeghi; Solmaz Sadeghi

Volume 8, Issue 1 , June 2017, Pages 117-136

https://doi.org/10.22059/jolr.2017.63142

Abstract
  This paper addresses the different repair strategies applied in the Surani Kurdish language for the correction of vowel hiatus, cross-linguistically known as a phonologically marked ...  Read More