Azita H. Taleghani

List of John Benjamins publications in which Azita H. Taleghani is involved.

Title

Modality, Aspect and Negation in Persian

Azita H. Taleghani

This monograph presents a morpho-syntactic investigation on modality, aspect, and negation by concentrating on Persian, and is designed to contribute to theoretical linguistics and the study of Iranian languages. The analysis is based on the Minimalist program. This research challenges the idea… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 128] 2008. ix, 183 pp.

Article

Karimi, Simin and Azita H. Taleghani 2007 Wh-movement, interpretation, and optionality in Persian Phrasal and Clausal Architecture: Syntactic derivation and interpretation, Karimi, Simin, Vida Samiian and Wendy K. Wilkins (eds.), pp. 167–187 | Article

We examine the syntactic behavior of wh-arguments and wh-adjuncts in Persian, a wh-in-situ language that exhibits (seemingly) optional wh-movement. We show that the two types of wh-phrases have distinct internal structures that are responsible for their different syntactic behavior. The analysis… read more