Journal of Western Iranian Languages and Dialect

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Article Info ABSTRACT Article type: Research Article Different linguistic constructions, including comparative, superlative, similative, and equative constructions, are employed to convey the concept of comparison. Equative and similative constructions exhibit the highest semantic and structural resemblance out of all the specified constructions. I...

Article Info ABSTRACT Article type: Research Article The phonological status of word-initial glottal stops in Persian has been a subject of controversy. Particularly, researchers hold divergent views on whether the glottal stop functions as a phoneme in word-initial positions. These perspectives can be categorized into three main positions: (1) glo...

Article Info ABSTRACT Article type: Research Article Previous studies have focused mostly on the syntactic features of the linking particle (Ezafe) in simple noun phrases with little attention paid to its semantic representations and functions specifically within the context of deverbal noun phrases. The present study aims to analyze semantic funct...

Article Info ABSTRACT Article type: Research Article Kurmanji uses two morphological forms of pronouns and R-expressions: direct and oblique. The direct form of first and second pronouns (local pronouns) is fully specified for person and number. In contrast, direct third-person pronouns and R-expressions are unmarked; however, these arguments still...

Article Info ABSTRACT Article type: Research Article Modality in different languages can be expressed through different grammatical categories such as modal adjectives, modal adverbs, modal auxiliaries, and modal lexical verbs. This descriptive-analytic study aims to determine grammatical category and syntactic position of "t ͡ ʃəmɑn" in Kalhori Ku...

Article Info ABSTRACT Article type: Research Article Typology which is one of the dynamic branches of linguistics tries to compare languages and attain generalizations. This approach aims at comparing languages' structures and revealing systemic patterns of variations existing among them. Word order studies is one of the most important issues in la...

Article Info ABSTRACT Article type: Research Article As a cognitive process, metaphor objectifies mental concepts in such a tangible form that the study of human mental structure would be possible. The goal of this research is to study the conceptual domain of "hunting" and its negative representation in love "dating and marriage" based on the conc...

Article Info ABSTRACT Article type: Research Article The present study, as a data-based and diachronic one, has been done in order to investigate different types of pragmatic meanings belonging to the discourse marker "ya'ni" on thetical grammar level, and development of these meanings over time (centuries 4 to 14 A.H.). This study is based on Trau...

Article Info ABSTRACT Article type: Research Article Critical discourse analysis affects the speakers' comprehension of social, cultural and political issues by uncovering the underlying structures of messages. This descriptive-analytical study investigates the hanging tale of Hasanak-e-Vazir based on Van Dijk's (2007) socio-cognitive approach to c...

Article Info ABSTRACT Article type: Research Article Stress is one of the important phonological concepts regarding syllable. The purpose of this study is to analyze the stress in Ilami Kurdish verbs within the framework of Hayes (1995) Metrical theory. In this research, ten verbs were selected and they were pronounced by five male Kurdish speakers...

Article Info ABSTRACT Article type: Research Article Metaphor has a long history and a high position in Persian literature. Literature is a social phenomenon and the connection between literature and society is undeniable. The present research has tried to investigate the difference in the use of upper and lower spatial metaphors in four different...

This study presents an overview of phonological adaptation of loanwords in Azerbaijani Turkish Language by breaking up the initial clusters. The syllable structure of Azerbaijani Turkish Language is CV(C)(C). That is ONSET is obligatory in this language, and there should be a consonant at the beginning of the word. But the initial cluster is forbid...

In this research, semantic frames and construction schemes of compound verbs with "dɑdæn" (to give) light verb has been studied to consider their polysemy. The data includes 382 compound verbs with "dɑdæn" as a light verb, collected from the sources such as Zansu Dictionary (Keshani, 1993), Farhang-e Bozorg-e Sokhan (Anvari, 2002), Syntactic Valenc...

Article Info ABSTRACT Article type: Research Article The purpose of the present study is to investigate double negation in Persian in the framework of Cognitive linguistics and based on the theory of mental spaces. Negation is one of the most important cognitive, intellectual and linguistic categories in the human mind, which is manifested in diffe...

Article Info ABSTRACT Article type: Research Article The current research delves into phonological processes in the Sanandaji dialect of Sorani Kurdish within the framework of prosodic phonology. Prosodic phonology, a prominent approach in this field, offers a practical method for defining the scope of each phonological rule through seven prosodic...

Article Info ABSTRACT Article type: Research Article The present research has aimed at describing and also qualitive and quantities analysis of constructions in Shushtari dialect called expressions based on construction grammar proposed by Fillmore et al (1988) and syntax-lexicon continuum (Croft, 2001). Data collection has been done using both fie...

Article Info ABSTRACT Article type: Research Article The present study aims to investigate linguistic landscape among Kurdish speakers in the west part of Iran. A total of 812 signs were photographed (772 photos were selected) and were later categorized according to the top-down (governmental) versus bottom-up (private sector) distinction in Kerman...

Article Info ABSTRACT Article type: Research Article Automated author identification is one of the important fields in forensic linguistics. In this study, the effectiveness of systemic functional grammar (Halliday and Matthiessen, 2014) features in Persian authorship attribution was compared with that of function words. First, a corpus composed of...