Nazila Shafiei
List of John Benjamins publications in which Nazila Shafiei is involved.
Article
2023 Chapter 2. Persian quantifiers and their scope Advances in Iranian Linguistics II, Karimi, Simin, Narges Nematollahi, Roya Kabiri and Jian Gang Ngui (eds.), pp. 44–80 | Chapter
This paper investigates quantifiers and their scope in Persian, proposing that Persian is not a scope-rigid language, rather scope rigidity in this language is a construction-specific property controlled by scrambling. In other words, the availability of scrambling translates into lack of… read more
