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Contrast in Focus Persian and Turkish focus constructions
Persian and Turkish exhibit a number of striking similarities, including the following: (a) many verbal concepts are expressed by complex predicates (CPr) consisting of a non-verbal element (NVE) and a light verb (LV) (Folli et al. 2005, Megerdoomian 2002, Kornfilt 2003), (b) both languages exhibit scrambling, (c) they both mark direct objects for specificity (Enç1991, Karimi 2005), and (d) foc...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Dotawo: A Journal of Nubian Studies
سال: 2015
ISSN: 2373-2571
DOI: 10.5070/d62110045