Expletives in Modern Persian

It has generally been argued that Persian does not include dummy elements called expletives, in spite of the existence of the morpheme ǐn which shows the behavior of an expletive in specific constructions. The morpheme is not a part of the argument structure and has no meaning. In Persian, which is...

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Main Author: Abolfazl MOSAFFA JAHROMI
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Ljubljana Press (Založba Univerze v Ljubljani) 2012-01-01
Series:Acta Linguistica Asiatica
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Online Access:https://journals.uni-lj.si/ala/article/view/31