Description:
The 13 chapters of this volume represent a selection of the papers presented at the "Third International Conference on Iranian Linguistics", held in September 2009 at the Université Sorbonne Nouvelle in Paris. This series of conferences brings together scholars from all theoretical persuasions has established a tradition of interdisciplinary linguistic research on Iranian languages. This volume represent the dynamic and rapidly growing nature of Iranian linguistics, a field which has united linguists of all persuasions who share a strong commitment to the scientific investigation of Iranian languages, their structure, history and use.
Review Quotes: "The volume does, however, represent a most valuable contribution to Iranian linguistics. The range of Iranian languages studied is impressive and most of the articles demonstrate high scholarly competence. The careful editorial work has produced an attractive and cohesive volume. Maps, diagrams, and tables make it easy to get an overview of the articles, which for the most part are innovative and treat a great variety of interesting topics. In addition to answering the research questions posed in the studies, in many cases they invite further research. One veinteresting topic for further studies is presented by Sims-Williams, namely the ditransitive construction and the encoding of addressees, recipients, and benefactives. Other topics treated in this volume that would be interesting to study in a variety of Iranian languages include the development of perfect forms, deixis, consonant epenthesis, and finite control."
Von Carina Jahani, Department of Linguistics and Philology, Uppsala University
In: Orientalia Suecana VOL. LXI (2012) S. 214- 217.