Jila Ghomeshi

List of John Benjamins publications in which Jila Ghomeshi is involved.

Title

Determiners: Universals and variation

Edited by Jila Ghomeshi, Ileana Paul and Martina Wiltschko

This volume brings together recent work on the formal and interpretational properties of determiners across a variety of typologically and geographically unrelated languages. It seeks to answer the core question of modern linguistic theory: Which properties of languages are universal and which are… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 147] 2009. vii, 247 pp.

Articles

Ghomeshi, Jila 2020 Chapter 4. The additive particle in Persian: A case of morphological homophony between syntax and pragmatics Advances in Iranian Linguistics, Larson, Richard K., Sedigheh Moradi and Vida Samiian (eds.), pp. 57–84 | Chapter

This chapter discusses the syntactic and semantic properties of the additive marker -am in Persian. I show that -am exhibits positional variability, is polysemous in meaning, and does not always contribute meaning that affects the truth conditions of the sentence. On the basis of this I classify… read more

Ghomeshi, Jila and Diane Massam 2009 The proper D connection Determiners: Universals and variation, Ghomeshi, Jila, Ileana Paul and Martina Wiltschko (eds.), pp. 67–96 | Article

We examine the concepts “proper” and “common” to determine how they are encoded in noun phrases. We address the issue of the noun-determiner relation in fixing the value of a noun phrase, arguing that both noun class and determiner features are involved. We suggest that in both definite common and… read more

Ghomeshi, Jila, Ileana Paul and Martina Wiltschko 2009 Determiners: Universals and variation Determiners: Universals and variation, Ghomeshi, Jila, Ileana Paul and Martina Wiltschko (eds.), pp. 1–22 | Miscellaneous