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Contents of An Introduction to Persian

INTRODUCTION: PHONOLOGY AND SCRIPT    
     
Preface   xi
The Phonology of Persian   xv
Syllabification   xix
Stress   xx
The Persian Alphabet   xx
Pronunciation Exercise   xxxii
Reading Exercise   xxxiv
 
     
PART ONE: THE GRAMMAR OF MODERN PERSIAN    
     
Lesson One   1
1 Word order. 2 Stress. 3 Gender. 4 State of the noun. 5 Orthography of the indefinite enclitic. 6 Adjectival order. 7 The plural. 8 The non-specific plural.    
     
Lesson Two   6
9 Demonstrative adjectives and pronouns. 10 Verbal agreement with the plural. 11 Co-ordination. 12 Adverbs. 13 Interrogative sentences. Supplementary Vocabulary: Courtesy Phrases.    
     
Lesson Three   12
14 The ezáfe. 15 The noun in the predicate position.    
     
Lesson Four   19
16 Pronouns. 17 Present copulas. 18 The negative copula. 19 Kist and chist. Supplementary Vocabulary: Courtesy Phrases.    
     
Lesson Five   24
20 The vocative. 21 The possessive ezáfe. 22 The long copula.    
     
Review I   30
     
Lesson Six   31
23 The infinitive. 24 The past stem and the past absolute tense. 25 The specific direct-object marker. Supplementary Vocabulary: Countries and Languages.    
     
Lesson Seven   40
26 Compound verbs. 27 The continuous prefix. 28 The past participle. 29 The past narrative tense.    
     
Lesson Eight   48
30 Uses of che and kodâm. 31 Comparison of adjectives.    
     
Lesson Nine   58
32 Other plurals. 33 Pronominal possessives.    
     
Lesson Ten   63
34 The present stem. 35 The present indicative.    
     
Review II   69
     
Lesson Eleven   71
36 Pronominal enclitics. 37 Reflexive pronouns.    
     
Lesson Twelve   78
38 Cardinal numbers. 39 Ordinal numbers. Supplementary Vocabulary: Weights and Measures.    
     
Lesson Thirteen   85
40 Relative clauses. 41 The remote past absolute tense. 42 The remote past narrative tense.    
     
Lesson Fourteen   93
43 The future tense. 44 Other numerical expressions. Supplementary Vocabulary: Family Relationships.    
     
Lesson Fifteen   101
45 The imperative. 46 Resumptive-sentence construction. Supplementary Vocabulary: Foodstuffs.    
     
Review III   108
     
Lesson Sixteen   109
47 On the nature of compounds. 48 The present subjunctive. 49 Uses of the present subjunctive I. Supplementary Vocabulary: Articles of Clothing.    
     
Lesson Seventeen   119
50 Impersonal constructions. 51 Uses of the present subjunctive.    
     
Lesson Eighteen   127
52 Totally impersonal constructions. 53 The participial absolute. 54 Reported speech and verbs of sense perception.    
     
Lesson Nineteen   133
55 The past subjunctive. 56 Back-formation of infinitives and denominative verbs. 57 Temporal use of ke. 58 Impersonals with âdam.    
     
Lesson Twenty   141
59 Uses of the subjunctive III: adjectival clauses. 60 Uses of the infinitive. Supplementary Vocabulary: Common Materials.    
     
Review IV   150
Additional Vocabulary: Academic Fields    
     
Lesson Twenty-One   152
61 Conditionals. 62 Other irrealis constructions. 63 Expressions of temporal duration. Additional Vocabulary: Mishaps.    
     
Lesson Twenty-Two   162
64 Uses of the subjunctive IV: adverbial clauses. 65 Participial forms. Additional Vocabulary: Travel.    
     
Lesson Twenty-Three   171
66 Abstraction of substantives. 67 Double-substantive compounds. 68 Adjective/adverbs in -âne. 69 Magar. Supplementary Vocabulary: Parts of the Body.    
     
Lesson Twenty-Four   180
70 "As.. .as possible." 71 "The more.. .the more." 72 Factitive verbs. 73 Verbal nouns. 74 Infinitival adjectives.    
     
Lesson Twenty-Five   187
75 The passive. 76 Uses of the past participle. 77 Diminutives.    
     
Review V   192
     
PART TWO: CLASSICAL AND ARCHAIC USES   195
     
78 The majhul vowels. 79 Euphonic -d-. 80 The optative and negative imperative. 81 The vocative enclitic. 82 Dative usages. 83 Prefixing postpositions. 84 The perfective aspect; the be- prefix. 85 Cho(n). 86 The continuous-progressive marker hami. 87 The past habitual and conditional. 88 The archaic present stem of budan. 89 The archaic negative copula. 90 The archaic past narrative. 91 The gnomic past.    
     
PART THREE: COLLOQUIAL TRANSFORMATIONS   205
     
92 Phonological transformations. 93 The copulas. 94 Verbal inflections. 95 Reduced, altered and contracted verbal stems. 96 The present and past progressive. 97 Direct-object marker. 98 The emphasizing particle -ke. 99 Pronominal enclitics. 100 Prepositions.    
     
Appendix A   215
The Uses of tá    
     
Appendix B   218
Telling Time, Days of the Week, Months of the Year    
     
EXAMPLES OF CONTEMPORARY PERSIAN PROSE   223
     
EXAMPLES OF CLASSICAL PERSIAN PROSE   241
     
VOCABULARIES    
     
English-Persian   251
Persian-English   258
     
INDEX   285
     
 
 
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