The evolution of Action Nouns in -išn between Middle Persian and New Persian
Orientalia Suecana, 2022 Middle Persian Action Nouns in ‑išn have become ‑eš in Standard Contemporary Persian. In Early New Persian (8th–12th centuries), there are some occurrences of ‑išn. The present paper focuses on the evolution of these words, especially ravišn “method” in
Agnès Lenepveu-Hotz
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The origins of the term “luri languageˮ: a historical investigation
Әл-Фараби Атындағы Қазақ Ұлттық Университеті хабаршы шығыстану сериясы, 2021 The present article deals with the controversial relationship of Luri Language with Persian, and aims to find out whether Luri is a distinct family from Persian even in the middle period, or it must be considered only a modern dialect of Middle Persian ...
S.M. Dadras, O. Izadi, S. Rezaei
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Diachronic study of information structure in Persian [PDF]
نشریه پژوهشهای زبانشناسی, 2023 The present study aimed to investigate diachronic changes in the frequency and function of marked syntactic structures, namely passive constructions, preposing, and cleft sentences that manifest information structural elements in Persian.
Marjan Ansari +2 more
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The Middle Persian Title of Khusraw Parvīz’s Commander-in-Chief
Orientalia SuecanaThe present article aims to reconstruct one of the titles borne by Khusraw Parvīz’s commander-in-chief (sipahbad), generally known to the sources as Shahr-barāz, ‘The Wild Boar of the Kingdom’.
Paola Orsatti
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Grammaticalization of heštan in Persian literary texts [PDF]
تاریخ ادبیات, 2021 In the Persian literary texts, the verb hesht and its present stem hel- have been used with mood's lexical meanings and grammatical function. On the other hand, the past stem of the verb is used in the form helid that is analogical formation.
Ehsan Changizi
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The sea in Sumerian literature [PDF]
, 2020 Surveying the references to the sea in Sumerian literature, this paper discusses the general idea that the sea is underrepresented in Mesopotamian cultures of the third millennium BCE.
Lorenzo Verderame
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Iran, America and Iranian American Community in Firoozeh Jazayeri Dumas\u27 Funny in Farsi [PDF]
, 2014 Post 9/11 the United States of America concerns the reconstruction of already demonized identities of Arabs and Middle-eastern cultures. Postcolonial works reside in their rendering a tragic or serious image of Middle Easterners to bring the Western ...
Agho, Kingsley E. (R13260) +2 more
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The Semantic Roles of the Preposition “’az” in Persian Language [PDF]
مجله مطالعات ایرانی, 2018 Language, like a living being, changes through time and studying of its characteristics in its present form without considering diachronic changes is incomplete and insufficient.
Ehsan Changizi
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On the lexical evidence of the concept of “leader” in Middle Persian and Arabic languages
Banber Arevelagitut'yan Instituti, 2022 In New Persian (hereafter NP) there are more than two dozen Arabic borrowings, attested in different dictionaries and partly still using today for the concept of "leader" [8], while most of the words for the same concept in Middle Persian (hereafter MP ...
Artyom Tonoyan , Artem Davydov
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The Study of the Emergence of Modal Functions of the Verb “Residan” (to arrive) in Persian from the Perspective of Grammaticalization [PDF]
̒Ilm-i Zabān, 2020 Modal functions of the verb “residan” (to arrive) and the emergence of such modal characteristics are discussed from the perspective of grammaticalization in the present study.
Mahmood Jafari Dehaghi +2 more
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