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| Introduction: Phonology and Script | |
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| Preface | |
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| The Phonology of Persian | |
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| Syllabification | |
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| Stress | |
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| The Persian Alphabet | |
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| Pronunciation Exercise | |
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| Reading Exercise | |
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| The Grammar of Modern Persian | |
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| Word order | |
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| Stress | |
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| Gender | |
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| State of the noun | |
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| Orthography of the indefinite enclitic | |
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| Adjectival order | |
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| The plural | |
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| The non-specific plural | |
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| Demonstrative adjectives and pronouns | |
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| Verbal agreement with the plural | |
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| Co-ordination | |
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| Adverbs | |
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| Interrogative sentences | |
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| Supplementary Vocabulary: Courtesy Phrases | |
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| The ezafe | |
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| The noun in the predicate position | |
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| Pronouns | |
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| Present copulas | |
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| The negative copula | |
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| Kist and chist | |
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| Supplementary Vocabulary: Courtesy Phrases | |
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| The vocative | |
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| The possessive ezafe | |
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| The long copula | |
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| The infinitive | |
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| The past stem and the past absolute tense | |
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| The specific direct-object marker | |
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| Supplementary Vocabulary: Countries and Languages | |
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| Compound verbs | |
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| The continuous prefix | |
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| The past participle | |
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| The past narrative tense | |
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| Uses of che and kodam | |
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| Comparison of adjectives | |
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| Other plurals | |
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| Pronominal possessives | |
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| The present stem | |
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| The present indicative | |
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| Pronominal enclitics | |
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| Reflexive pronouns | |
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| Lesson Twelve | |
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| Cardinal numbers | |
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| Ordinal numbers | |
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| Supplementary Vocabulary: Weights and Measures | |
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| Relative clauses | |
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| The remote past absolute tense | |
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| The remote past narrative tense | |
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| The future tense | |
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| Other numerical expressions | |
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| Supplementary Vocabulary: Family Relationships | |
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| The imperative | |
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| Resumptive-sentence construction | |
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| Supplementary Vocabulary: Foodstuffs | |
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| On the nature of compounds | |
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| The present subjunctive | |
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| Uses of the present subjunctive I | |
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| Supplementary Vocabulary: Articles of Clothing | |
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| Impersonal constructions | |
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| Uses of the present subjunctive II | |
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| Totally impersonal constructions | |
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| The participial absolute | |
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| Reported speech and verbs of sense perception | |
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| The past subjunctive | |
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| Back-formation of infinitives and denominative verbs | |
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| Temporal use of ke | |
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| Impersonals with adam. | |
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| Uses of the subjunctive III: adjectival clauses | |
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| Uses of the infinitive | |
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| Supplementary Vocabulary: Common Materials | |
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| Additional Vocabulary: Academic Fields | |
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| Conditionals | |
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| Other irrealis constructions | |
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| Expressions of temporal duration. Additional Vocabulary: Mishaps | |
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| Uses of the subjunctive IV: adverbial clauses | |
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| Participial forms. Additional Vocabulary: Travel | |
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| Abstraction of substantives | |
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| Double-substantive compounds | |
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| Adjective/adverbs in -ane | |
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| Magar | |
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| Supplementary Vocabulary: Parts of the Body | |
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| "As...as possible." | |
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| "The more...the more." | |
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| Factitive verbs | |
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| Verbal nouns | |
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| Infinitival adjectives | |
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| The passive | |
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| Uses of the past participle | |
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| Diminutives | |
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| Classical and Archaic Usages | |
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| The majhul vowels | |
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| Euphonic d | |
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| The optative and negative imperative | |
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| The vocative enclitic | |
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| Dative usages | |
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| Prefixing postpositions | |
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| The perfective aspect; the be- prefix | |
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| Cho(n) | |
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| The continuous-progressive marker hami | |
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| The past habitual and conditional | |
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| The archaic present stem of budan | |
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| The archaic negative copula | |
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| The archaic past narrative | |
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| The gnomic past | |
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| Colloquial Transformations | |
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| Phonological transformations | |
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| The copulas | |
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| Verbal inflections | |
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| Reduced, altered and contracted verbal stems | |
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| The present and past progressive | |
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| Direct-object marker | |
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| The emphasizing particle -ke | |
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| Pronominal enclitics | |
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| Prepositions | |
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| The Uses of ta | |
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| Telling Time, Days of the Week, Months of the Year | |
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| Examples of Contemporary Persian Prose | |
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| Examples of Classical Persian Prose | |
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| Vocabularies | |
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| English-Persian | |
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| Persian-English | |
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| Index | |