Agreement Restrictions in Persian; Acknowledgements; Table of Contents; Chapter 1: Introduction; Chapter 2: Animacy and Agreement Restriction in Persian; Chapter 3: Psychological Verbs and Multiple Subject Constructions; Chapter 4. Psychological verbs in Persian and Applied Arguments; Chapter 5: Concluding Remarks; References; List of Abbreviations; Backlist Iranian Studies Series
Summary
Agreement Restrictions in Persian is the first comprehensive attempt to tackle the issue of verbal agreement in Persian from a cross-linguistic point of view. Persian is a field of research within theoretical linguistics that is yet to be sufficiently explored. This book adopts Chomsky's Minimalist Program which is at the forefront of recent theories of formal syntax, and applies it to the Persian language. Although it is commonly believed that in Persian the verb agrees with the subject, several constructions seem to constrain this obligatory rule. Adopting the framework of Distributed Morpho
Analysis
Persian language, syntax, grammar, Chomsky, Distributed Morphology
