Abstract
This Part II deals with the second part of Lumsden's Persian Grammar, which focuses on the issues of syntax in terms of theory and praxis. He aims at investigating how parts of speech fulfil syntactic functions, what kinds of linguistic tools are required in order to change their class membership and what sorts of rules can be extracted from language material which govern their linguistic behaviour. One of his deepest insights is that rules work only partially, certain linguistic issues fail to be formalised by rules, and therefore observation helps to understand their nature and behaviour. The linguistic issues, the analyses of which are presented here, are the numerous functions and constructions of clitical pronouns, generic vs. specific references or definite vs. indefinite statuses of the noun. Analysing regular or irregular linguistic occurrences, he lays special emphasis on style differences in Persian poetry and prose.
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