| ID | 101024 |
| Title Proper | Syntax, morphology, and semantics of ezafe |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Parsafar, Parviz |
| Publication | 2010. |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | Although ezafe has been studied by many scholars for many years, it does not yet have a transparent grammatical status. Grammarians have regarded ezafe as a polysemous "word" carrying over ten different "meanings/functions." After a brief review of the previous treatments of ezafe, this paper will present a syntactic analysis, followed by a morphological description and a semantic analysis of this ubiquitous morpheme. It will also compare the distributional properties of other relevant bound morphemes with those of the ezafe. It will finally conclude that ezafe is a dummy clitic-like morpheme which is semantically void, while syntactically it functions as an "associative marker" which subordinates its [+N] host, on the left, to its following complements. |
| `In' analytical Note | Iranian Studies Vol. 43, No. 5; Dec 2010: p637-666 |
| Journal Source | Iranian Studies Vol. 43, No. 5; Dec 2010: p637-666 |
| Key Words | Syntax ; Morphology ; Semantics ; Ezafe ; Language |