Research Paper
Secondary Predicates in Persian, A Minimalist Approach
Secondary Predicates in Persian, A Minimalist Approach

Mazdak Anushe

Volume 9, Issue 2 , January 2019, Pages 1-21

https://doi.org/10.22059/jolr.2018.69526

Abstract
  Secondary predicates are among the syntactic structures that have been neglected by the traditional Persian grammarians, but in the course of the last four decades of studies in generative ...  Read More
Research Paper
A Constructional Study of the Compounds of Body Part “Del” (Heart) in Persian
A Constructional Study of the Compounds of Body Part “Del” (Heart) in Persian

Ava Imani; Adel Rafiei; Mohammad Amouzadeh

Volume 9, Issue 2 , January 2019, Pages 23-43

https://doi.org/10.22059/jolr.2018.69527

Abstract
  This study aims at examining the construction of the word-formation pattern of [del-X] (compounds of “heart”) and investigating its semantic variations, the most general ...  Read More
Research Paper
A Constructional Cognitive Approach to the Persian Suffix ‘-gɑr’
A Constructional Cognitive Approach to the Persian Suffix ‘-gɑr’

Parsa Bamshadi; Negar Davari Ardakani

Volume 9, Issue 2 , January 2019, Pages 45-66

https://doi.org/10.22059/jolr.2018.69528

Abstract
  The suffix ‘-gɑr’ is a nominal and adjectival suffix in Persian which is believed by most researchers to express the subjective (agentive) meaning. The purpose of the present ...  Read More
Research Paper
An Optimality-Theoretic Account of Phonology-Semantics Interaction in Persian
An Optimality-Theoretic Account of Phonology-Semantics Interaction in Persian

Bashir Jam

Volume 9, Issue 2 , January 2019, Pages 67-87

https://doi.org/10.22059/jolr.2018.69529

Abstract
  The relationship between semantics and phonology is generally denied (Archangeli & Pulleyblank, 1994: 5, 433). That is, semantic and phonological changes usually apply independently. ...  Read More
Research Paper
Semantic Changes of
Semantic Changes of "Var / Bar"

Ehsan Changizi; Elahe Hoseyni Matak

Volume 9, Issue 2 , January 2019, Pages 89-107

https://doi.org/10.22059/jolr.2018.69530

Abstract
  Some linguistic forms may become polysemous through language changes and lose their core meaning. Sometimes these forms may stay as relics in different constructions and their core ...  Read More
Research Paper
The Effect of Persian Conjunctions Use on Azerbaijani Turkish
The Effect of Persian Conjunctions Use on Azerbaijani Turkish

abdolhossein heydari

Volume 9, Issue 2 , January 2019, Pages 109-128

https://doi.org/10.22059/jolr.2018.74548

Abstract
  The aim of this research is to study the borrowing of Persian conjunctions by speakers of Azerbayjani Turkish and its effect on their language. Data were collected from Azerbayjani ...  Read More
Research Paper
Toward a Cognitive Taxonomy for Explicitating Shifts in Translation
Toward a Cognitive Taxonomy for Explicitating Shifts in Translation

Soheil Daneshzadeh; Ali Afkhami; Behrooz Mahmoodi-Bakhtiari

Volume 9, Issue 2 , January 2019, Pages 129-150

https://doi.org/10.22059/jolr.2018.69532

Abstract
  In this paper, we attempt to present an alternative approach to the concept of translational explicitaion. First, we shortly evaluate the validity of a fundamental presupposition widespread ...  Read More
Research Paper
Swear Speech Act in a Community of Practice: A sociolinguistic study with an emphasis on the Pragmatics of the Discourse of Iranian Modern Market
Swear Speech Act in a Community of Practice: A sociolinguistic study with an emphasis on the Pragmatics of the Discourse of Iranian Modern Market

Hossein Talebzadeh; Mehdi Bazyar; Reza Ghafar Samar

Volume 9, Issue 2 , January 2019, Pages 151-169

https://doi.org/10.22059/jolr.2018.69533

Abstract
  In spite of the significance, frequency, and function of swearing in many discourse communities and cultures, swear speech act has not been adequately studied with regard to Linguistics ...  Read More
Research Paper
A Task-Oriented Perspective of Temporal Fluctuation of Motivation for Learning Persian among Foreign Students in Iran
A Task-Oriented Perspective of Temporal Fluctuation of Motivation for Learning Persian among Foreign Students in Iran

Zahraa Abbasi; Hadi Yaghoubinezhad

Volume 9, Issue 2 , January 2019, Pages 171-194

https://doi.org/10.22059/jolr.2018.69534

Abstract
  Motivation for learning a new language is both self and time-oriented. The language learner’s motivation experiences gradual fluctuation over time and the view of oneself is different ...  Read More
Research Paper
Lexical Functional Grammar Levels of Representation in Certain Persian Syntactic Structures
Lexical Functional Grammar Levels of Representation in Certain Persian Syntactic Structures

Sare Abdollahi; Farideh Haghbin; Masood Ghayoomi

Volume 9, Issue 2 , January 2019, Pages 195-214

https://doi.org/10.22059/jolr.2018.69535

Abstract
  Lexical Functional Gramma (LFG) is a non-transformational generative grammar, which excludes concepts such as deep structure, surface structure and transformation. Rather than shifting ...  Read More