Academy of Persian Language and Literature

Dabir-Moghaddam, Mohammad

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“…To compensate for its relatively small inventory of verbs, Persian makes heavy use of complex predicates, also known as light verb constructions and compound verbs. Complex predicates involve a combination of a simplex verb, termed the light verb, and a noun, adjective, or prepositional phrase, termed the non-verbal element, or NVE (Dabir-Moghaddam 1995;Karimi 1997;Folli et al 2005;Karimi-Doostan 2011). Complex predicates may be compositional, in which case the meaning of the entire complex predicate is predictable from the meanings of the light verb and NVE (Karimi 1997;Folli et al 2005;Karimi-Doostan 2011).…”

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Mental states via possessive predication: the grammar of possessive experiencer complex predicates in Persian

Smith

2024

Nat Lang Semantics

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Persian possesses a number of stative complex predicates with dâshtan ‘to have’ that express certain kinds of mental state. I propose that these possessive experiencer complex predicates be given a formal semantic treatment involving possession of a portion of an abstract quality by an individual, as in the analysis of property concept lexemes due to Francez and Koontz-Garboden (Language 91(3):533–563, 2015; Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 34:93–106, 2016; Semantics and morphosyntactic variation: Qualities and the grammar of property concepts, Oxford University Press, 2017). Augmented with an analysis of prepositional phrases introducing the target of the mental state and an approach to gradability in terms of measure functions (Wellwood in Measuring predicates, PhD dissertation, University of Maryland, College Park, 2014), the analysis explains various properties of possessive experiencer complex predicates, including the behavior of target phrases, the ability of the non-verbal element to be modified by a range of adjectives, the direct participation of the non-verbal element in comparative constructions, and the ability of degree expressions to modify both the non-verbal element and the VP containing the complex predicate. Theoretically, the analysis ties transitive mental state expressions to the grammar and semantics of property concept sentences, which are expressed via possessive morphosyntax cross-linguistically, and connects with syntactic proposals that independently argue for a universal underlyingly possessive morphosyntax for mental state predicates (Noonan in Case and syntactic geometry, PhD dissertation, McGill University, 1992; Hale and Keyser in Prolegomenon to a theory of argument structure, MIT Press, 2002). The work here also motivates modifications to Francez and Koontz-Garboden’s original proposal, and opens new questions in the original empirical domain of the analysis of possessive predicating strategies for the expression of property concept sentences.

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Mental states via possessive predication: the grammar of possessive experiencer complex predicates in Persian

Smith

2024

Nat Lang Semantics

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“…We used Persian phrasal verbs as a way of maximising the predictive nature of the sentences. Persian phrasal verbs consist of a verb and a non-verbal element that form a tight probabilistic dependency, similar to English particle verbs like take out, where the full meaning is only interpretable from both elements (Dabir-Moghaddam, 1997;Samvelian & Faghiri, 2013. The tight dependency stems from the fact that Persian phrasal verbs are highly frequent, idiomatic structures whose second element becomes highly predictable from the sentence context.…”

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The N400 is elicited by meaning changes but not synonym substitutions: Evidence from Persian phrasal verbs

Stone,

Khaleghi,

Rabovsky

2023

Preprint

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We tested two accounts of the cognitive process underlying the N400 event-related potential (ERP) component: one that it reflects meaning-based processing and one that it reflects the processing of specific words. The experimental design utilized separable Persian phrasal verbs, which form a strong, long-distance dependency, ideal for the study of probabilistic processing. In sentences strongly constraining for a particular interpretation, we show that only words that changed the expected meaning of the sentence increased N400 amplitude, while words that were synonyms of the most probable target word did not. The findings support an account of the N400 in which its underlying process is driven by the processing of meaning rather than of specific words. The findings also contribute to increasing the linguistic diversity and generalizability of cognitive research.

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“…Under Reza Shah Pahlavi, who was the Shah of Iran from 1925 to 1941, the Persian Academy was established, which included the charge of eradicating Arabic elements from the Persian language. Meanwhile, in the 1990s, the فرهنگستان زبان و ادب فارسی /færhængestɔnɛ zæbɔn væ ædæbɛ fɔrsi/ 1 or ‘The Academy of Persian Language and Literature,’ which was founded in 1935, made it a priority to protect and purify Persian from other languages and create Persian equivalents for foreign words and minimize the use of loanwords (Dabir‐Moghaddam, 2018; Riazi, 2005). In addition, in 2001, a new bill known as Regulation Number 488 was passed, designed to ‘purify’ undesirable and inappropriate websites in order to protect the ‘moral order’ and the nation's ‘Islamic values’ (Borjian, 2013) from the unwanted ‘cultural invasion’ and ‘Western exploitation’ (Yarshater, 2015).…”

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The Persianization of English in multilingual Tehran

Sahranavard

Lee

2020

World Englishes

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This article examines the uses of English in the multilingual cityscape of Tehran, the capital city of Iran. Drawing from photographic data of 400 publicly visible signs in Tehran, this study aims to understand the various ways in which English, as both a linguistic and cultural resource, operates in tandem with emergent Iranian cultural practices in the context of globalization, especially in relation to the centrality of Persianness to contemporary Iranian national identity. The article, in addition to offering a sociolinguistic history and contemporary portrait of English in Iran, demonstrates how English is used not only to index Western cultural influences and ideals but also how English is relocalized in accordance with the local communicative needs of contemporary Iranians in Tehran. We refer to this phenomenon as the Persianization of English, in which English operates in a discursive field delinked from its indexes to Western culture.

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Academy of Persian Language and Literature

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Mental states via possessive predication: the grammar of possessive experiencer complex predicates in Persian

Mental states via possessive predication: the grammar of possessive experiencer complex predicates in Persian

The N400 is elicited by meaning changes but not synonym substitutions: Evidence from Persian phrasal verbs

The Persianization of English in multilingual Tehran

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