Transitivity Effect on Sentence Structure in Persian

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In functional perspective transitivity is explained through functional and semantic factors, and is considered as a cline. This article investigates transitivity effect on Persian morpho-syntax in cases like noun incorporation, and non-passivity of verbs based on prototypical definition of transitivity and its important related studies. Also, transitivity prominence in Persian will be elaborated on in comparison with Haspelmat´s studied languages. Then, transitivity effect will be investigated in discourse level on two short folk stories. The data show that on morpho-syntax level, transitivity decline leads to the emergence of incorporation constructions, and in case of passive construction, non-passive state verbs have low transitivity. Transitivity prominence is rather low in Persian compared to Haspelmat´s studied languages, and on discourse level high transitivity is correlated with foregrounding and low transitivity with backgrounding.

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