Trends in Iranian and Persian Linguistics / / ed. by Alireza Korangy, Corey Miller.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2018 Part 1
• MitwirkendeR: Abdolhosseini, Mohammad,; Dini, Shadi,; Eslami, Zohreh R.,; Gebhardt, Lewis,; Ghomeshi, Jila,; Hal, Toon Van,; Ido, Shinji,; Ioannesyan, Youli,; Jahani, Carina,; Lenepveu-Hotz, Agnès,; Mahmoodi-Bakhtiari, Behrooz,; Mahootian, Shahrzad,; Marszalek-Kowalewska, Katarzyna,; Miller, Corey,; Rossi, Adriano V.,; Rzehak, Lutz,; Saeli, Hooman,; Schwartz, Martin,; Vydrin, Arseniy,; Yusupova, Z. A.,
• HerausgeberIn: Korangy, Alireza,; Miller, Corey,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2018]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] , 313
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (XII, 368 p.)

This set of essays highlights the state of the art in the linguistics of Iranian languages. The contributions span the full range of linguistic inquiry, including pragmatics, syntax, semantics, phonology/phonetics, lexicography, historical linguistics and poetics and covering a wide set of Iranian languages including Persian, Balochi, Kurdish and Ossetian. This book will engage both the active scholar in the field as well as linguists from other fields seeking to assess the latest developments in Iranian linguistics.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Table of contents -- Introduction -- 1 The alleged Persian-Germanic connection: A remarkable chapter in the study of Persian from the sixteenth through the nineteenth centuries1 -- 2 Huihuiguan zazi: A New Persian glossary compiled in Ming China -- 3 Glimpses of Balochi lexicography: Some iconyms for the landscape and their motivation -- 4 On some Iranian secret vocabularies, as evidenced by a fourteenth-century Persian manuscript -- 5 Specialization of an ancient object marker in the New Persian of the fifteenth century1 -- 6 Fillers, emphasizers, and other adjuncts in spoken Dari and Pashto -- 7 The historically unmotivated majhul vowel as a significant areal dialectological feature -- 8 Variability in Persian forms of address as represented in the works of Iranian playwrights -- 9 Some linguistic indicators of sociocultural formality in Persian -- 10 Spoken vs. written Persian: Is Persian diglossic? -- 11 Accounting for *yek ta in Persian -- 12 The associative plural and related constructions in Persian -- 13 Revisiting the status of -eš in Persian1 -- 14 ‘Difficult’ and ‘easy’ in Ossetic -- 15 Possessive construction in Kurdish -- 16 To bring the distant near: On deixis in Iranian oral literature -- 17 Extracting semantic similarity from Persian texts -- List of contributors -- Index