Abstract

I am grateful to Andrew Barss, Molly Diesing, Jaklin Kornfilt, Anne Lobeck, Richard Oehrle, Rudy Troike, and two LI reviewers for their valuable comments and suggestions. 1 The dialect under discussion in this squib is the standard Tehrani dialect spoken in Iran. 2 The particle rci, which appears as o and ro in the colloquial language, marks an NP for specificity (Karimi 1990). Elsewhere I have suggested that it is the head of a functional projection that takes an NP as its complement (Karimi 1996). This analysis concerns the internal structure of the specific object and does not affect the phrase structure rules provided in (27). 3Abbreviations: SG = singular, SUBJ = subjunctive, HAB = habitual, PART = particle, PL = plural, NEG = negation, PRED = predicate, EZ = Ezafe particle. An Ezafe construction is an NP consisting of the head (an element with the feature [+ N]), its modifier(s), an optional possessive NP, and the Ezafe particle e that is structurally utilized as a link between the head and its modifier(s). See Samiian 1983, 1994, Karimi and Brame 1986, and Ghomeshi 1997 for discussion.

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