This dissertation investigates the structure of the Determiner Phrase from a crosslinguistic
perspective, with a particular focus on English and Persian. Three main issues are …

The nature of preverbal nominals and their relation to the verb have been the focus of much
debate in languages with a productive complex predication process. For Persian, certain …

In the evolution of languages, some changes may lack functional explanations of their own
and instead be mechanically triggered by changes occurring in other areas of the grammar …

The central goal of this article is to propose a systematic description of differental function
marking (DM) in Korean, a language in which both subject and object markers may fail to be …

Part II of the paper deals with deep-syntactic and surface-syntactic actants. A deep-syntactic
actant slot is defined by its correspondence to a semantic actant slot; a deep-syntactic actant …

Studies on constituent ordering have pointed out the tendency to post-pose heavy
constituents. However, head-nal languages seem to display the mirror-image tendency. In …

Three main aspects of Persian syntax have received a great deal of attention for more than
30 years: the Ezâfe construction, differential object marking with the enclitic= râ, and …

In this paper, I propose an analysis of Persian complex predicates, based on the First Phase
Verbal syntax developed by Ramchand (2008). I suggest that the light verbs lexicalize the …

In a most recent corpus study on Persian, Faghiri & Samvelian (2014) found a significant
effect of relative length in the ordering preferences between the direct and indirect objects in …

This thesis examines the syntactic structure of clauses in Central Kurdish, focusing
specifically on the syntax of verbs and verbal categories including tense, aspect, agreement …