A Minimalist Approach to Scrambling

Karimi, Simin

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“…Beaver et al 2007). 30 Our observations on focus adverbs can be extended to some other morphosyntactic focus markers discussed in Karimi (2005), which we have ignored in the main text for the sake of brevity. In particular, as Karimi (2005) claims, a contrastively focused element may be marked by means of movement to sentence-initial position.…”

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“…30 Our observations on focus adverbs can be extended to some other morphosyntactic focus markers discussed in Karimi (2005), which we have ignored in the main text for the sake of brevity. In particular, as Karimi (2005) claims, a contrastively focused element may be marked by means of movement to sentence-initial position. Here, it should be noted that placing a non-sentence-initial constituent at the front of the sentence does not mark that constituent as focus unless all the following elements are deaccented.…”

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“…14 Persian is generally described as an SOV language, while allowing a great degree of rearrangements for pragmatic purposes. Crucially, post-verbal arguments and adverbials are structurally unaccented elements, and cannot be prosodically marked for focus (Karimi 2005;Sadat-Tehrani 2007). As an exceptional case, Sadat-Tehrani (2007: 138) observes that within "motion constructions", which involve predicates meaning 'go', 'come', etc., post-verbal elements are structurally accented and can also be prosodically focused.…”

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“…Karimi (2005) in particular has argued that there is a morphosyntactic strategy to express (contrastive) focus through the use of exclusive focus adverbs like [faɢat] 'only', which in the usual cases appears to the left of the focus constituent, as in (13) However, the use of a focus adverb like [faɢat] 'only' in no way absolves the speaker from employing prosodic focus marking in the form of post-focus deaccentuation, as shown in (15) with its F0 contour depicted in Figure 15 (cf. panel (c) in Figure 1 which gives the F0 contour of (14a)).…”

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Post-focal and factive deaccentuation in Persian

Rahmani

Rietveld

Gussenhoven

2018

Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics

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Two experiments were carried out to examine whether the Persian word accent is deleted in two putative deaccenting contexts, post-focal regions and presupposed embedded clauses, to the extent that accentual minimal pairs become homophonous. A production experiment showed low F0 plateaus on the post-focal and presupposed words, while a perception experiment showed that such words are not recognized above a just-noticeable-difference baseline. The results confirm that accents are deleted in the contexts concerned and that accent location contrasts are neutralized.

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Post-focal and factive deaccentuation in Persian

Rahmani

Rietveld

Gussenhoven

2018

Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics

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“…This type of verb can be with a complement clause, noun phrase and without a complement clause. In example (21) verb fahmidan (to understand) as a factive verb, takes a complement clause. However, the omission of this clause after the verb is measured different acceptability.…”

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Mixed Approach in Syntax: Evidence from Persian

Vaezi¹

2015

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Abstract-This paper sheds new light on Persian Linguistics; meanwhile to criticize the traditional trends pushed theoretical linguistics formal approach) and applied linguistics (Functional approach 1 ) part; as well as welcome the evidence and opportunities that this mixed approach provide for bringing them together. This model of analysis will be known as a mixed model that can achieve more comprehensive responses for Persian diversities than considering each approach in isolation. They're both are vital for Persian syntactic analyses; they are complementary. Relying on each approach is misleading. The main objective is to support this claim by evidence from Persian Language. The Persian evidence shows the constraints and varieties in this language is not only originated from syntactic principles, but also they are greatly motivated by pragmatic considerations. Therefore the variety of syntactic structures such as wh-constructions, sluicing, ditransitive verbs and obligatory adjuncts can not be determined or stipulated by the absolute formal constraints. As an evidence the first group of constructions will be discussed.Index Terms-formal approach, functional approach, mixed approach, Persian language

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