Persian Studies in North America: English 1994

(For US customer $60) Thirty-two articles by leading scholars on the state of the study of Persian literature. Four of the articles are in Persian. These articles were dedicated to Professor Mohammad Ali Jazayery upon his retirement. TABLE OF CONTENTS Foreword Winfred P. Lehmann, The University of Texas at Austin Mohammad Ali Jazayery: A Biographical Sketch Herman H. Van Olphen, The University of Texas at Austin Part I: Persian Language and Linguistics Guardianship of The Persian Language Ehsan Yarshater, Columbia University One Language With Three Names Jalal Matini, Journal of Iranshenasi Notes on Motivations in The Study of Persian Gernot L. Windfuhr, The University of Michigan The Ezafe Construction: Some Implications for the Theory of X-Bar Syntax Vida Samiian, California State University, Fresno Order Variations in Contemporary Spoken Persian Simin Karimi, University of Arizona Phonological Systems in Contact in Iran and Transcaucasia Donald L. Stilo, University of Washington On Some Syntactic Particularisms of The Transoxian Tajiki Persian A. G. Ravan Farhadi, University of California, Berkeley Russian Loan-words in Persian and