Reza Soltani
List of John Benjamins publications in which Reza Soltani is involved.
Articles
2025 The lexicon-grammar continuum: What Persian complex predicates reveal Constructions and Frames 17:1, pp. 34–64 | Article
We argue for the lexicon-grammar continuum by looking into the separability of Persian complex predicates, an open class of verb constructions for which it has been argued that the components are either separable or inseparable. We contend that separability is best described as a scalar rather… read more
2025 The semantic change of faqare (‘vertebra’, ‘unit’) as a numeral classifier in Persian Review of Cognitive Linguistics: Online-First Articles | Article
This article deals with an ongoing semantic change in which Persian faqare (‘vertebra’, or ‘unit’) is transitioning from a specific numeral classifier to a general numeral classifier in the grammatical construction Num + faqare + NP. In this transition the connections to the prototypical… read more