Persian Grammar

Gernot L. Windfuhr

• Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
• Year: 2011
• ISBN:
  9783110800425
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Languages & Linguistics
• Subtopic: Linguistics
• Index: Languages & Linguistics

Table of contents

• Acknowledgments
• Foreword
• 1. Previous surveys
• 2. The present survey
• 2.1 Scope
• 2.2 Approach to this volume
• 3. Transcription
• 1. The study of Persian grammar
• 1.0 Introduction
• 1.1 Studies by Europeans
• 1.2 Studies by Iranians
• 1.3 Appendix: Grammars by Europeans
• 2. Syntax
• 2.0 Introduction
• 2.1 The noun and noun phrase
• 2.2 The verb and verb phrase
• 2.3 ‘To be’
• 2.4 Modals
• 2.5 Aspectual auxiliaries
• 2.6 šav and ‘passive’
• 2.7 Compound verbs
• 3. Phonetics and phonology
• 3.0 Introduction
• 3.1 Survey of scholarship
• 3.2 Vowels
• 3.3 Diphthongs
• 3.4 Consonants
• 3.5 Phoneme distribution
• 3.6 Notes on diachrony
• 3.7 Stress and other suprasegmental features
• 3.8 The writing system
• 4. Lexis
• 4.0 Introduction
• 4.1 Lexicology
• 4.2 Lexicography
• 4.3 Concordances
• 4.4 Historical dictionaries
• 4.5 Phraseology
• 5. Stages of modern Persian
• 5.0 Introduction
• 5.1 Studies of periods and diachrony
• 5.2 Emergence and formative period
• 5.3 Oldest preserved originals
• 5.4 Manuscripts from the 10th century onward
• 6. Appendix: Topical bibliography
• 6.0 Introduction
• 6.1 References
• 6.2 Some grammars and textbooks (after 1900)
• 6.3 Some dictionaries
• 7. Bibliography
• 7.1 Introduction
• 7.2 Alphabetical list of abbreviations of journals and collective works including festschriften
• 7.3 Alphabetical bibliography I: items without specified author
• 7.4 Alphabetical bibliography II: by author