Masoud Jasbi
List of John Benjamins publications in which Masoud Jasbi is involved.
Articles
2020 Chapter 6. The suffix that makes Persian nouns unique Advances in Iranian Linguistics, Larson, Richard K., Sedigheh Moradi and Vida Samiian (eds.), pp. 107–118 | Chapter
Although it is widely acknowledged that Tehrani Persian (often broadly labeled as Persian) has no dedicated marker of definiteness, the nominal suffix -e has been analyzed as a colloquial definiteness marker. Here I show that -e can mark bare nominals to ensure a definite interpretation, but it… read more
2020 Chapter 7. The meaning of the Persian object marker rā: What it is not, and what it (probably) is Advances in Iranian Linguistics, Larson, Richard K., Sedigheh Moradi and Vida Samiian (eds.), pp. 119–136 | Chapter
The Persian object marker rā is called many things, among them: marker of specificity (Karimi 1990), definiteness (Mahootian 1997), secondary topics (Dabir-Moghaddam 1992), and presuppositions (Ghomeshi 1996). These accounts capture the core of what rā is, yet also include a lot of what rā is… read more