Modality, aspect and negation in Persian
By: by Azita Hojatollah Taleghani.
Series: Linguistik aktuell/linguistics today -- v. 128
Publisher: John Benjamins Pub.
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Philadelphia, PA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 183
ISBN-13: 9789027255112
Subjects: Persian language -- Mood; Persian language -- Verb; Persian language -- Aspect; Persian language -- Negatives
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: The goal of the research; title: Persian phrase structure; title: Persian as an SOV language; title: Passive in Persian; title: Raising construction in Persian; title: Expletives in Persian; title: Data : tense, aspect, modality, and negation; title: Tense and aspect; title: Negation; title: The interaction of tense and negation; title: Modality; title: The interaction of modality and negation; title: Theoretical framework; title: Mood and modality in Persian : morpho-syntactic and semantic view; title: The interaction of mood and modality; title: Persian modals : syntactic representation; title: Syntactic structure of modals : an overview; title: Persian modals : raising or control construction; title: Syntactic vs. Semantic control; title: Persian control verbs : restructuring or non-restructuring; title: Persian complex modals and restructuring; title: Lack of CP projection; title: Ke as a multifunctional element; title: Temporal adverbs; title: Lack of wh-phrase; title: Persian auxiliary modal verbs and restructuring; title: Persian modals : structural position; title: Theoretical background : phase theory; title: German modals : structural position; title: Persian modals : structural position; title: Negation; title: Morpho-syntax of negation cross-linguistically; title: Negation : syntactic structure; title: Negation in Persian; title: Tense and aspect in Persian; title: The interaction of negation and tense in Persian; title: Aspectual complex predicates and negation; title: Interaction of modality with negation; title: Two linguistic strategies for showing the interaction of modality and negation; title: The interaction of Persian modality and negation : structural analysis perrsian word order : reconsideration; title: Concluding remarks.