Research Paper
The Persian Light Verbs’ Productivity
The Persian Light Verbs’ Productivity

Mahdie Eshaghi; Gholamhosain Karimi doustan

Volume 12, Issue 2 , December 2022, Pages 1-28

https://doi.org/10.22059/jolr.2021.315912.666682

Abstract
  Rhythmic characteristics of speech based on consonantal and vocalic intervals as well as syllabic intervals vary between speakers of the same language. Nonetheless, the rhythmicity ...  Read More
Research Paper
Speech Rhythm Measures: Acoustic Cues for Speaker Identification
Speech Rhythm Measures: Acoustic Cues for Speaker Identification

Homa Asadi; Batool alinezhad

Volume 12, Issue 2 , December 2022, Pages 29-49

https://doi.org/10.22059/jolr.2021.304539.666624

Abstract
  Rhythmic characteristics of speech based on consonantal and vocalic intervals as well as syllabic intervals vary between speakers of the same language. Nonetheless, the rhythmicity ...  Read More
Research Paper
Mukri Pronominal Clitics in Prepositional Phrase: An Optimality Theorectic
Mukri Pronominal Clitics in Prepositional Phrase: An Optimality Theorectic

Ghader Allahweisiazar; Vahid Gholami; Omid Varzandeh

Volume 12, Issue 2 , December 2022, Pages 51-76

https://doi.org/10.22059/jolr.2022.329760.666742

Abstract
  Historical linguistic studies on words lead to the genesis of  clitics. Clitics function like independent words but they are phonologically dependent and in order to be pronounced ...  Read More
Research Paper
Merge Position of Floating Quantifier
Merge Position of Floating Quantifier "Hame" in Persian

Safa Sadeghi Ashrafi; Ali Darzi

Volume 12, Issue 2 , December 2022, Pages 77-100

https://doi.org/10.22059/jolr.2021.291976.666554

Abstract
  This paper investigates the External Merge position of the floating quantifier “hame” (all) in Persian. Quantifier floating has received two major analyses: stranding adverbial. ...  Read More
Research Paper
Possessor-Raising and Figure-Raising Constructions in Persian: 
                                         a Distributed Morphology Analysis
Possessor-Raising and Figure-Raising Constructions in Persian: a Distributed Morphology Analysis

Vida Sadrolmamaleki

Volume 12, Issue 2 , December 2022, Pages 101-122

https://doi.org/10.22059/jolr.2021.328361.666734

Abstract
  In Persian, much research focuses on the syntax-morphology interface in DM, but research on the syntax-semantics interface is generally absent from DM literature. The aim of this study ...  Read More
Research Paper
Pragmatic Aspects of Mægær (‘unless’/’but’) as a Discourse Marker in Persian
Pragmatic Aspects of Mægær (‘unless’/’but’) as a Discourse Marker in Persian

Shahin Shirzadi; Mohammad Amouzadeh; Seyed Alo Kalantari; Vali Rezai

Volume 12, Issue 2 , December 2022, Pages 123-146

https://doi.org/10.22059/jolr.2021.323183.666712

Abstract
  Discourse marker is a functional-pragmatic category, not affecting truth conditions of the sentence. These linguistic elements encode procedural rather than representative or propositional ...  Read More