"Zeytun Ɂangoštari", " Ɂâsemân sor", "hesse gušâyi": A Case study of Lexical Innovation

Fatemeh Ebrahimi Parsa

Volume 2, Issue 2 , March 2011, Pages 1-16

Abstract
  Having not acquired or retrieved any words for the intended concept, in the process of mother tongue acquisition, children sometimes try to innovate new words in dealing with the ...  Read More
A Study of Hedging in Persian Academic Papers
A Study of Hedging in Persian Academic Papers

Azam Estaji; Fahimeh Afshin

Volume 2, Issue 2 , March 2011, Pages 17-36

Abstract
  The present paper studies hedges in Persian academic papers. Hedging has an important role in academic discourse; in fact it is a device expressing a writer's degree of certainty ...  Read More
Quantifier Phrase and Classifier phrase in Sarhadi Dialect of
Balochi; A minimalist Analysis
Quantifier Phrase and Classifier phrase in Sarhadi Dialect of Balochi; A minimalist Analysis

Ali Darzi; Nahid Yar Ahmadzehi

Volume 2, Issue 2 , March 2011, Pages 37-56

Abstract
  This paper aims to investigate the presence of quantifier phrase and classifier phrase in the DP of Sarhadi dialect of the Baluchi language. To reach this goal, pseudo partitive constructions ...  Read More
An Etymological Study of some Hōrāmian Verbs
An Etymological Study of some Hōrāmian Verbs

Hossein Solgi; Rahan Bakhtiari

Volume 2, Issue 2 , March 2011, Pages 57-75

Abstract
  H?r?m? is a g?r?n? dialect and subset of G?r?n?-Z?z? linguistic branch and is considered as one of northwest Iranian dialects. H?r?m? is a preserved dialect and have preserved the ...  Read More
Compensatory Lengthening in Persian: A Perception
Experiment
Compensatory Lengthening in Persian: A Perception Experiment

Vahid Sadeghi

Volume 2, Issue 2 , March 2011, Pages 77-94

Abstract
  This article addresses the perceptual correlates of compensatory lengthening in Persian. In a perception experiment, duration, spectral tilt measurements H1-H2 and H1-F1 and F0 were ...  Read More
Checking Absolutive Case in the Ergative Structure
Checking Absolutive Case in the Ergative Structure

Yadegar Karimi

Volume 2, Issue 2 , March 2011, Pages 95-113

Abstract
  This paper investigates the nature of Absolutive case and the syntactic mechanisms underlying its licensing. To this end, two recent minimalist approaches to the syntactic derivation ...  Read More
A Cognitive Approach to the Context Synonymy in Persian
Verbs
A Cognitive Approach to the Context Synonymy in Persian Verbs

Raheleh Gandomkar

Volume 2, Issue 2 , March 2011, Pages 115-125

Abstract
  Cognitive semantic approach, which deals with the "cognition" of human being, tries to explain the way of human understanding by means of different tools, such as image schema. In ...  Read More
Intonational Representation of Secondary Stress In
Contemporary Persian Language
Intonational Representation of Secondary Stress In Contemporary Persian Language

Amir Saeed Moloodi; Mahmoud Bijankhan

Volume 2, Issue 2 , March 2011, Pages 127-146

Abstract
  In the theory of phrasal phonology and on the basis of the leveling rule, Kahnemuyipour (2003) claims that in the stress representation, the words with? symbols in the intonational ...  Read More