Richard K. Larson
List of John Benjamins publications in which Richard K. Larson is involved.
Journal
ISSN 1606-822X | E‑ISSN 2309‑5067
Book series
Language Faculty and Beyond
Internal and External Variation in Linguistics
Edited by Kleanthes K. Grohmann and Pierre Pica
ISSN 1877-6531
Title
Advances in Iranian Linguistics
Edited by Richard K. Larson, Sedigheh Moradi and Vida Samiian
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… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 351] 2020. vi, 309 pp.
2023 Chapter 4. Middle Persian Ezafe Advances in Iranian Linguistics II, Karimi, Simin, Narges Nematollahi, Roya Kabiri and Jian Gang Ngui (eds.), pp. 100–129 | Chapter
This chapter describes one phase of the historical development of the “Ezafe” morpheme, a significant feature of Western Iranian languages. Ezafe is argued to have arisen in Middle Persian (MP) by a reanalysis of the Old Persian relative pronoun ‘haya’ due to a preponderance of copula-less… read more
2022 Adjectives, case and concord A0 – The Lexical Status of Adjectives, Panagiotidis, Phoevos and Moreno Mitrović (eds.), pp. 73–120 | Chapter
2022 Applied objects in Mandarin and the nature of selection New Explorations in Chinese Theoretical Syntax: Studies in honor of Yen-Hui Audrey Li, Simpson, Andrew (ed.), pp. 357–394 | Chapter
This article examines a range of data involving non-canonical objects in Mandarin mono- and di-transitive sentences. It argues that these represent applied object constructions, in which an oblique argument is “promoted” to the status of a direct object. The core theoretical apparatus employed… read more
2020 Chapter 10. The Ezafe construction revisited Advances in Iranian Linguistics, Larson, Richard K., Sedigheh Moradi and Vida Samiian (eds.), pp. 173–236 | Chapter
This chapter addresses the nature, distribution and function of the Ezafe morpheme, a distinguishing grammatical feature of many of the Iranian languages. We review three main analyses advanced in the wide literature on the subject: semantic, morphological, and syntactic. We argue that the… read more
2012 Root transformations & quantificational structure Main Clause Phenomena: New Horizons, Aelbrecht, Lobke, Liliane Haegeman and Rachel Nye (eds.), pp. 47–78 | Article
Hooper and Thompson (1973) observe that root transformations (RTs) occur in asserted adverbial adjuncts (because-clauses) but not in presupposed ones (when/before/after-clauses). Developing the idea that adverbial clauses can be analyzed semantically as parts of quantificational structures, we… read more
1991 Some Issues in Verb Serialization Serial Verbs: Grammatical, Comparative and Cognitive Approaches, Lefebvre, Claire (ed.), pp. 185–210 | Article