Contractual risks are buried within numerous statements of lengthy construction project
contracts and are overlooked by different parties during the contract review process. The …

Heaviness (or phrasal length) has been shown to trigger mirror-image constituent ordering
preferences in head-initial and head-final languages (heavy-late vs. heavy-first). These …

The question of whether the 'unmarked'or 'canonical'word order in Modern Eastern
Armenian (MEA) 1 is (S) OV or (S) VO is a matter of controversy. MEA can be considered a …

In spoken colloquial Persian, there exists the particle 'e', which can be suffixed to the bare
nominals (as in pesar-e: boy-e), nominals with some definite markers like demonstratives …

Accusative and ergative alignments are accounted for in terms of head licenced case, ie in
terms of Agree, rejecting dependent case approaches. In the accusative alignment …

It has been claimed that in some Iranian languages like Sorani Kurdish enclitic pronouns
shifted to verbal agreement markers via topic agreement, ie hanging topics resumed by …

This paper offers a new theory of nuclear stress assignment, focusing on data from Persian
(an SOV language) and English (an SVO language). The proposed theory bypasses …

In this article, we examine the semantics of RA in Persian, focusing on the aspectual notion
of delimitation. Delimitation is a term commonly used in the study of aspect and information …

This paper presents a corpus-based description of cleft constructions in Persian showing
that they display more diversity and complexity than currently described in the literature …

Persian has a polyfunctional case marker,'rā', which diachronically varies greatly in the
range of functions it covers. In this paper, we give an account of different case functions of …