Abstract This paper aims to investigate the usage and frequency of what we refer as K-suffixes in Classical New Persian ninth thirteenth centuries, Contemporary Written late nineteenth mid-twentieth Spoken Persian. It shows that are most likely be reflexes earlier evaluative morphemes, traditionally called “diminutives,” characterized by a high degree multifunctionality. While functions continu...

This paper addresses some of the issues learned during the course of building a written language resource (called ‘Peykare’) for contemporary Persian. After defining five linguistic varieties and 24 different registers based on these linguistic varieties, we collected the texts for Peykare to do a linguistic analysis, including cross-register differences. For tokenization of Persian, we have pr...

this paper aims at investigating evidentiality in contemporary persian from a typological point of view. first the category of evidentiality and its types in the languages of the world is introduced. gathering and analysing data of spoken and written form of this language as well as classic texts,  an attempt was made to see whether evidentiality exists in this language as a grammatical categor...

in present research, four of qajar prose works were initially selected as following: nasekh al-tavarikh of muhammad taghi lesan al-molk sepehr, masalek al-mohsenin of ‘abd al-rahim tabrizi, majma’ al-fosaha of reza gholi khan hedayat, and hezar-o-yek shab translated by ‘abd al-latif tasuji tabrizi. their most important writing and editing errors such as verbs, plural signs, words and structures...

along with the beginning of novel and short story writing in persian and urdu languages various literary movements like realism, social realism and surrealism overshadowed the contemporary literature of iran and pakistan. modern prose of persian and urdu consists of great assets from novels and short stories, and their considerable background . during various periods of the growth and prosperit...

plants in ancient fictional texts describe the  relation between low world and super worlds and appear in forms including ritual resurrection, human reincarnation in plant and vice versa, identification of human and plant , and etc which  relate human's spirit to supernatural. contemporary persian poets are taking advantage of a new language that is full of mythical concepts for expression...

both iran and iraq during their countries’ histories have seen numerous political events. the most important event that can be seen in contemporary histories of both countries is war. the involvement of both nations with ominous phenomena of war has caused the formation of somewhat similar approaches in the cultures of these two countries. one of these similar approaches is the formation of res...