houchang golchiri, écrivain iranien et auteur du prince ehtejab, l’une des œuvres capitales de la littérature moderne persane, a rédigé en 1971 un roman intitulé christine et kid, inspiré largement du nouveau roman français et imité même, sur le plan thématique et structural, de la jalousie d’alain robbe-grillet. l’histoire du roman de golchiri se tisse autour de l’hyperthème de la jalousie, ma...

abstract the ancient history and culture of iran has been a main field of research for many writers in the contemporary times. among these writers is hushang golshiri. in many of his works, in fifth innocent and shazdeh ehtejab (prince ehtejab) in particular, he has paid great attention to history. the main question of the present study is to discuss how golshiri has dealt with story and myth i...

Non-structure preserving phonological processes are defined by the emergence of a segment which is assumed to be absent from the lexical inventory of the language in question and, hence not contrastive. A central tenet of Optimality Theory (OT; Prince & Smolensky 1993/2004, McCarthy & Prince 1993, 1995, 1999), the Richness of the Base Hypothesis (RotB; Prince & Smolensky 1993) states that lingu...

This article reports on a series of 5 analyses of spontaneous production of verbal inflection (tense and person-number agreement) by 2-year-olds acquiring French as a native language. A formal analysis of the qualitative and quantitative results is developed using the unique resources of Optimality Theory (OT; Prince & Smolensky, 2004). It is argued that acquisition of morphosyntax proceeds via...

This paper investigates the prominence patterns of nominal triconstituent compounds in English. The standard assumption for such NNN compounds is that the branching-direction is responsible for stress assignment. In left-branching compounds, i.e. those of the structure [[NN] N], the leftmost noun is assigned highest prominence whereas in right-branching compounds, i.e. [N [NN]], the second noun...

Why should a project about an organizational merger be interesting? What do the Petit Price and the fox teach us about the mergers? Antoine de Saint-Exupéry tells us a story about to become friends. Knowing the Petit Prince the fox breaks its life style; it learns a new verbal and emotional language and consequently re organizes tis life In this paper, I argue that reading a merger event as a b...

This paper provides an analysis of the reduplicative patterns of Kavalan, an endangered Formosan plains tribe language spoken by fewer than one hundred people on the eastern coast of Taiwan. Kavalan reduplication is special in that the reduplicant takes several distinct shapes depending on the initial syllable of the base (Lee 2009). Within the framework of Optimality Theory (Prince & Smolensky...