Raising in Persian

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dc.contributor.advisor	Colarusso, John	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Jones, Linda M.	en_US
dc.date.accessioned	2014-06-18T16:59:06Z	-
dc.date.available	2014-06-18T16:59:06Z	-
dc.date.created	2012-07-26	en_US
dc.date.issued	1983-02	en_US
dc.identifier.other	opendissertations/7196	en_US
dc.identifier.other	8246	en_US
dc.identifier.other	3134836	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/11375/12297	-
dc.description.abstract	<p>'Raising', a rule of transformational syntax, is considered to be a language universal. This thesis challenges its universality on the basis of evidence from Modern Persian. Whereas in English the subject of the embedded sentence may be raised to object of the matrix verb, in Persian the embedded sentence is restructured, forming a noun phrase, and the S-node is pruned. This renders centre-embedding more manageable and precludes extrapositioning.</p> <p>Interviews with native speakers and my own knowledge of Persian provide the data for these conclusions.</p>	en_US
dc.subject	Anthropology	en_US
dc.subject	Anthropology	en_US
dc.title	Raising in Persian	en_US
dc.type	thesis	en_US
dc.contributor.department	Anthropology	en_US
dc.description.degree	Master of Arts (MA)	en_US
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