%0 Journal Article
%T Persian Preposition Classes
%A Marina Pantcheva
%J Nordlyd : Troms£¿ University Working Papers on Language & Linguistics / Institutt for Spr£¿k og Litteratur, Universitetet i Troms£¿
%D 2006
%I University of Troms?
%X In this paper I present the prepositional system in Persian. I show that Persian prepositions can be divided into three classes (Class 1, Class 2a and Class 2b) which exhibit distinct syntactic behavior. Then I examine the question of the categorial status of Class 2 prepositions and demonstrate that they are not to be regarded as nouns. Finally I present the extended PP projection of Persian spatial prepositions and argue for a feature-based analysis of the properties they manifest.
%K preposition
%K Farsi
%K Persian
%K spatial
%K Ezafe
%K AxPart
%K Path
%K Place
%K feature
%K Directional
%K Locative
%K location
%K nominal
%K category
%K syntax
%K syntactic
%U http://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/nordlyd/article/view/75