EXPRESSIONS OF FUTURE IN CLASSICAL AND MODERN NEW PERSIAN

As in several other Indo-European languages, there are two main strategies for marking future time reference in Persian:1. lexical or contextual means of expressing the future with the verb in the non-past tense2. periphrastic verbal constructions with an ‘upgraded,’ i.e. ‘pragmaticallystrengthened’...

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Published in:	Aspects of Iranian Linguistics p. 153
Main Author:	Jahani, Carina
Format:	Book Chapter
Language:	English
Published:	United Kingdom Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2008
Subjects:	Grammar, syntax, linguistic structure HUMANIORA och RELIGIONSVETENSKAP HUMANITIES and RELIGION Iranian languages Iranska språk LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS Languages and linguistics Linguistics lingvistik Other languages Språkvetenskap Övriga språk
ISBN:	9781847186393, 1847186394
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