Shoja Tafakkori

Razi University | razi · Department of English Language and Literature

Scrambling in Kalhori kurdish is a feature-based movement triggered by Focus feature. In this article, Scrambling in Kalhori Kurdish is studied based on Minimalism Program (Chomsky, 1995). In this language short distance, long distance and multiple scrambling occur .Specific direct object, specific indirect object, embedded object, WH – question ph...

رویکرد حاشیه‌های نحوی چامسکی (Chomsky, 2000, 2001) و خطی‌‌شدن چرخه‌ای فاکس و پزتسکی (Fox & Pesetsky, 2005)، دو رویکرد مطرح در تبیین حرکت در نحو فاز ـ بنیاد هستند. در این مقاله، نقاط قوت و ضعف این دو رویکرد، با داده‌های قلب نحوی در کردی کلهری به چالش‌کشیده می‌شود. یافته‌های پژوهش نشان داد که براساس رویکرد حاشیۀ نحوی، قلب نحوی نزدیک و قلب نحوی دور در...

In this study, “Ab Bid” written by Mohammad Bahmanbeigi has been investigated according to Van Leeuwen's model (2008) to explore how the writer uses the representation of social actors to express his ideology and viewpoints

This paper analyzes Theme and Thematic Progression in written biographies modeling Halliday's (1994, 2004) Systemic Functional Grammar, Daneš's Thematic Progression (TP) theory (1974), and McCabe's (1999) alternative TP hypothesis. The corpus includes 51 biographies of famous writers, totally adding up to 1495 T-units. The results showed that the S...

Small clause is considered as a constituent with [NP XP] structure which can appear as the argument of “consider-type” verbs. In some languages like French, Swedish, Arabic and Farsi the aforesaid chain makes a constituent called “Small Clause”, SC from now. As a matter of fact, since the appearance of the term SC in Linguistics by Williams (1974),...

“Verbal versus adjectival” dichotomy of passive structures has occurred in studies based on approaches believing two generative component in the grammar, i.e. syntax and lexicon. Distributed morphology (DM) (Halle & Marantz, 1993), a non-lexicalist approach to morphology, takes the theoretical position that there is only one generative component in...

The present paper examines a phenomenon by means of which the main verb in yes-no questions in the spoken form of Persian can either optionally move to the front of the sentence or remain in-situ, intending to yield an interrogative interpretation. However, as the latest approaches to the study of the linguistic systems do not opt for optionality,...

Van Leeuwen's socio- semiotic network of social actors (2008), is a framework in Critical Discourse Analysis which helps discourse analysts discover how the social features ,settled in the underlying levels of discourses, are represented on the upper levels. This study tries to explore the way social actors are nominated and categorized in “Al” whi...

Introduction: It is believed that different components of our linguistic capabilities are not impaired to the same extent in aphasic patients. Moreover theoretical issues on aphasia can be researched on patients with different languages. Thus, we aimed to study the dissociation of inflectional and derivational morphology by assessing the performanc...

The present paper aims to investigate the distribution of the sentential negative marker in Dashtestani dialect within the framework of Chomsky’s (1995; 2001) Minimalist Program. As well as adhering to the beginning of the tensed main verbs and tensed auxiliary verbs, the sentential negative marker in this dialect is able to sit immediately before...

The present research explores the semantics of two prepositions in Gurani Kurdish, i.e. “læ” and “wæ”. Our approach is cognitive semantics and we particularly use the principled polysemy model (Tyler and Evans, 2001, 2003; Evans and Tyler, 2004a, 2004b; Evans, 2004, 2005, 2006) that suggests clear criteria for determining both distinct senses and p...

This paper analyzes verb-preposing in yes-no questions in Persian within the Minimalist framework (Chomsky, 1995, 2000a-b). Raghibdoust (1993), in line with Karimi (1989), considers these constructions as the result of the extraction of the subject to the post-verbal position. As opposed to Raghibdoust (1993), therefore, in this paper, we employ so...

The present research explores the conceptual metaphors in the computer sciences within the framework of cognitive linguistics. The method of this study is descriptive and our data are from the comprehensive dictionary of computer sciences. The results of the research show that conceptual metaphors “computer is a human”, “computer programs are human...