Abstract
The current paper examines adjunct construction in Persian, which is an Indo-Iranian language. Various researchers have studied adjuncts and adjunction among different languages. Although Adjuncts and adjunction are very important in Persian language, none of the researchers have examined them based on the Minimalist Program and Functional Grammar. Therefore, the present study sought to review the records of Persian and non-Persian linguistic research studies and to introduce adverbs and prepositional phrases in Persian language. Then, their syntactic position was determined based on Radford (2004). The results showed that in Persian sentences, the structural differences could be made to follow from the semantic one. It was found that the view of adverbial licensing made the overall grammar more restrictive by banning reference to different syntactic structures for different semantic classes of adjuncts. DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2016.v7n51p25
Highlights
A Minimalist Approach Toward the Adjunct Construction in PersianThe current paper examines adjunct construction in Persian, which is an Indo-Iranian language
An adjunct is an optional part of a sentence, clause, or phrase that its removal would have no effect on the remainder of the sentence
Lambton (1966) mentions eight auxiliary verbs in Persian language: šodan,budan, tavƗnestan, xƗstan, gozƗštan (=ejazeh dƗdan), bƗyastan, šƗyastan andmƗnestan. He believes that xƗstan can be used in two different meanings; first, when it is used as the future marker, it has the role of an auxiliary verb; second, by the meaning of inclination, it would be regarded somehow as a lexical verb and it is accompanied with a lexical verb
Summary
The current paper examines adjunct construction in Persian, which is an Indo-Iranian language. Various researchers have studied adjuncts and adjunction among different languages. Adjuncts and adjunction are very important in Persian language, none of the researchers have examined them based on the Minimalist Program and Functional Grammar. The present study sought to review the records of Persian and non-Persian linguistic research studies and to introduce adverbs and prepositional phrases in Persian language. Their syntactic position was determined based on Radford (2004). It was found that the view of adverbial licensing made the overall grammar more restrictive by banning reference to different syntactic structures for different semantic classes of adjuncts
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