whether or not there is a verbal passive construction in persian has been ‎highly controversial. traditional grammarians and most linguists have ‎argued that there is a structural passive construction in persian, similar to ‎that observed in english. within the framework of the minimalist ‎program, but more in the spirit of emonds’s (2006) division of analytic ‎passives into verbal and adjectiv...

Recent lexicalist analyses of predicates expressed by syntactically independent elements, raise central questions concerning the domain in which such complex predicates are composed. Should they be composed in phrase structure or within the lexicon? We will argue that a demonstration of syntactic separability for pieces of complex predicates is independent of whether such predicates should be v...

some believe that language and literature are two independent systems while others hold that the two areas are not independent of each other. the present study has tried to demonstrate that persian poetry is closely tied with the language by evaluating the influence of scrambling, word order, complex predicates, subject-verb agreement as well as some supersegmental features in hafez’s works as ...

This paper presents the extraction of Complex Predicates (CPs) in Oriya based on shallow morphology and available seed lists of verbs. Generally Oriya language is a free word order language. Free word order languages have relatively unrestricted local word group or phrase structures that make the problem of complex predicates extraction quite challenging. The complex predicates are generally th...

this paper investigates the nature of absolutive case and the syntactic mechanisms underlying its licensing. to this end, two recent minimalist approaches to the syntactic derivation of ergative structure will be introduced. drawing on evidence from the syntactic derivation of clauses with intransitive complex predicates in kurdish, it will be established that the absolutive case is checked by ...

In this paper, we propose a representation of Czech complex predicates with light verbs in a valency lexicon. We demonstrate that if such a representation is to be theoretically adequate and at the same time economical, the information on complex predicates should be divided between two components of the lexicon, a data component and a grammar component. The data component stores all the inform...