S. Raghibdoust

This thesis examined the performance patterns of two Persian-speaking agrammatic patients and ten normal, Persian-speaking controls in two experiments, one syntactic and the other morphological. The goal of the Syntactic Experiment was to assess the patients I sensitivity to var…

This thesis treats the various constructions of interrogativity in colloquial modern Persian, within the Government and Binding framework. Chapter 2 presents the basic properties and the various methods of forming yes-no questions. I argue that changes in word-order may not be c…