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Expletives in Persian

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    • A. Darzi 1
    • SH. Tafakkori Rezayi 2

    1 University of Tehran

    2 Razi University of Kermanshah

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Abstract

The present study investigates the existence of expletives in Persian. Rizzi (1982, 1986) suggests that pro-drop languages, by virtue of licensing pro, would have empty non-referential subjects. However, Karimi (2005) takes the violation of Definiteness Effect in Persian as indicating that neither overt nor covert expletives exist in this language. Following Darzi (1996), we present pieces of evidence to show that Persian has overt expletives.  We then present arguments in support of Rizzi's (1982, 1986) hypothesis that pro-drop languages may have covert expletives as well. Finally, we provide cross-linguistic pieces of evidence from Icelandic, Finnish and Portuguese to suggest that being a pro-drop language or violating the Definiteness Effect in a language does not necessarily entail the absence of expletives in that language.

Keywords

  • Expletive
  • Pro-drop
  • Demonstrative
  • Empty Non-referential Subject
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Journal of Research in Linguistics
Volume 2, Issue 3 - Serial Number 3
December 2010
Pages 57-73
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  • Receive Date: 14 June 2016
  • Revise Date: 08 June 2018
  • Accept Date: 14 June 2016
  • First Publish Date: 14 June 2016
  • Publish Date: 22 November 2010
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Darzi, A. and Tafakkori Rezayi, S. (2010). Expletives in Persian. Journal of Research in Linguistics, 2(3), 57-73.

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Darzi, A. , and Tafakkori Rezayi, S. . "Expletives in Persian", Journal of Research in Linguistics, 2, 3, 2010, 57-73.

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Darzi, A., Tafakkori Rezayi, S. (2010). 'Expletives in Persian', Journal of Research in Linguistics, 2(3), pp. 57-73.

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A. Darzi and S. Tafakkori Rezayi, "Expletives in Persian," Journal of Research in Linguistics, 2 3 (2010): 57-73,

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Darzi, A., Tafakkori Rezayi, S. Expletives in Persian. Journal of Research in Linguistics, 2010; 2(3): 57-73.

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