"This volume brings together selected papers from the first North American Conference in Iranian Linguistics, which was organized by the linguistics department at Stony Brook University. Papers were selected to illustrate the range of frameworks, diverse areas of research and how the boundaries of linguistic analysis of Iranian languages have expanded over the years. The contributions collected in this volume address advancing research and complex methodological explorations in a broad range of topics in Persian syntax, morphology, phonology, semantics, typology and classification, as well as historical linguistics. Some of the papers also investigate less-studied and endangered Iranian languages such as Tat, Gilaki and Mazandarani, Sorani and Kurmanji Kurdish, and Zazaki. The volume will be of value to scholars in theoretical frameworks as well as those with typological and diachronic perspectives, and in particular to those working in Iranian linguistics"--.

• ADVANCES IN IRANIAN LINGUISTICS
• Editorial page
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Table of contents
• Chapter 1. Advances in Iranian linguistics: An introduction
  • 1. Iranian languages as a stable diversity hub
  • 2. Classification of Iranian languages
  • 3. Iranian linguistics
    • 3.1 Diachronic and typological studies
    • 3.2 Modern studies
  • References
• Chapter 2. Syntactic and semantic constraints on pronoun and anaphor resolution in Persian
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Core Persian binding data
  • 3. Multiple constraints
  • 4. Long distance anaphors
  • 5. Conclusion
  • Funding information
  • Acknowledgements
  • References
• Chapter 3. A multi-dimensional approach to classification of Iran’s languages
  • 1. Introduction
    • 1.1 Language mapping and atlases of Iran
    • 1.2 The Atlas of the Languages of Iran (ALI)
    • 1.3 The structure of this chapter
  • 2. An initial working classification of Iran’s languages
    • 2.1 Inventory of language varieties
    • 2.2 Construction of classification trees
    • 2.3 Backgrounding assessments of ‘language’ vs ‘dialect’
    • 2.4 Contribution and limitations of this initial classification
  • 3. Overview of existing language classification models
  • 4. A multi-dimensional language relation web for the languages of Iran
  • 5. Differentiation and visualization of links between language varieties
    • 5.1 Linguistic relation through genealogical inheritance
    • 5.2 Structural similarity through language contact
    • 5.3 Association through ethnic identification
  • 6. Summary and prospects
  • Funding
  • Acknowledgements
  • References
• Chapter 4. The additive particle in Persian: A case of morphological homophony between syntax and pragmatics
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Inflectional and derivational homophony in Persian
  • 3. Discourse markers and discourse particles
  • 4. The additive marker in conversational Persian
    • 4.1 The syntactic distribution of the additive marker
    • 4.2 The meaning of the additive marker
    • 4.3 The form of the additive marker
  • 5. Conclusion
  • Acknowledgements
  • References
• Chapter 5. The pronoun-to-agreement cycle in Iranian: Subjects do, objects don’t
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The agreement cycle according to van Gelderen (2011b)
    • 2.1 The agreement cycle with subject pronouns
    • 2.2 The agreement cycle with object pronouns
  • 3. Clitic pronouns and agreement in Iranian
    • 3.1 Clitic pronouns indexing subjects (A)
    • 3.2 Clitic pronouns indexing objects
  • 4. Conclusions
  • References
• Chapter 6. The suffix that makes Persian nouns unique
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Bare nominal vs. specific definite
  • 3. Simple indefinite vs. specific indefinite
  • 4. Specificity
  • 5. Common ground effects
  • 6. Analysis
  • 7. Conclusion
  • References
• Chapter 7. The meaning of the Persian object marker rā: What it is not, and what it (probably) is
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. What rā is not
    • 2.1 Topics
    • 2.2 Specificity
  • 3. What rā (probably) is
  • 4. Formal analysis
  • 5. Discussion
  • Abbreviations
  • References
  • Appendix
• Chapter 8. Topic agreement, experiencer constructions, and the weight of clitics
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Reanalysis of enclitic pronouns as agreement markers
    • 2.1 Keeping pronouns and agreement markers apart
    • 2.2 Interim results
  • 3. Experiencer constructions in Modern Persian
  • 4. Historical background of experiencer constructions
  • 5. Summary
  • Funding
  • Abbreviations
  • References
• Chapter 9. Another look at Persian rā: A single formal analysis of a multi-functional morpheme
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Data
  • 3. Theoretical background
  • 4. Analysis
  • 5. Prediction
  • 6. Classical Modern Persian
  • 7. Concluding remarks
  • References
• Chapter 10. The Ezafe construction revisited
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The Ezafe phenomenon
  • 3. Analyses of Ezafe
    • 3.1 Semantic analyses
    • 3.2 Ezafe as a morphological affix
    • 3.3 Ezafe as a case-marker
    • 3.4 Predictions of the case-marking analysis
  • 4. Concluding remarks
  • References
• Chapter 11. Quantitative meter in Persian folk songs and pop lyrics
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Meters in Classical Persian poetry
    • 2.1 Correspondence criteria in Classical Persian poetry
  • 3. Meters in Persian folk songs and pop lyrics
    • 3.1 Optional vowel shortening
    • 3.2 The origins of optional vowel shortening
    • 3.3 More deviations from Classical Persian metrics
  • 4. Alternative theories
    • 4.1 Falsifiability
    • 4.2 Poems claimed to lack quantitative meter
  • 5. Corpus data
  • 6. Conclusion
  • References
• Chapter 12. Stripping structures with negation in Persian
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Context of occurrence and interpretation
  • 3. Information structure
  • 4. The nature of negative marker
    • 4.1 Either-and neither conjoining test
    • 4.2 Adverbs
    • 4.3 Focusing adverb
  • 5. Analysis
    • 5.1 Analysis of Polarity Stripping and Negative Stripping
    • 5.2 Analysis of Pseudo-stripping
  • 6. Conclusion
  • Acknowledgements
  • References
• Chapter 13. Oblique marking and adpositional constructions in Tat: A mosaic of dialectal convergence and divergence
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Oblique marking in Tat
    • 2.1 Differential object marking
    • 2.2 Experiencer function
    • 2.3 Possessive constructions
    • 2.4 Possessive predication
  • 3. Adpositional constructions in Tat
    • 3.1 Simple adpositions
    • 3.2 Compound adpositions
    • 3.3 Placeholder construction
  • 4. Conclusion
  • Acknowledgements
  • List of abbreviations
  • Tat corpus bibliography
  • References
• Author index
• Languages index
• Subject index