Morpho-Phonological Analysis of Persian Simple Verbs (Paperback)

This book is about the riddles of simple verbs in the contemporary Persian language. The first issue under investigation concerns the strategies employed by Persian to resolve the problem of *HIATUS in the present simple stems. Another central concern is the alternations of the past morpheme. The author tried to figure out these puzzles in the light of applying the new version of Optimality Theory Framework.