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Pronominal Complex Predicates In Colloquial Persian, Ghazaleh Kazeminejad
Pronominal Complex Predicates In Colloquial Persian, Ghazaleh Kazeminejad
Theses and Dissertations--Linguistics
Pronominal complex predicates in colloquial Persian are periphrastic constructions with an idiosyncratic syntactic pattern. They show a peculiar behavior compared to the regular agreement system in Persian, and they are the only construction in Persian which requires the obligatory presence of a pronominal enclitic. This work is an attempt to analyze this construction in order to find its function. For this purpose, a lexical semantic classification of them was proposed, which helped in presenting a new analysis. It was found out that this construction is used to express a particular diathesis in which the topic of the sentence (determined according …