{"id":51,"date":"2008-06-26T16:14:46","date_gmt":"2008-06-26T21:14:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/persian_online_resources\/?page_id=51"},"modified":"2009-02-11T13:51:13","modified_gmt":"2009-02-11T19:51:13","slug":"language-specific-grammar","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/persian_online_resources\/language-specific-grammar\/","title":{"rendered":"Persian-Specific Grammar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some parts of <strong>grammar<\/strong> are specific to certain languages.  In Persian, this material consists of <a title=\"Digar\" href=\"http:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/persian_online_resources\/language-specific-grammar\/digar-magar\/\">digar<\/a>, <a title=\"Magar\" href=\"http:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/persian_online_resources\/language-specific-grammar\/magar\/\">magar<\/a>, <a title=\"What is Diglossia?\" href=\"http:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/persian_online_resources\/language-specific-grammar\/diglossia\/\">diglossia<\/a>, <a title=\"Direct Object Marker 1\" href=\"http:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/persian_online_resources\/language-specific-grammar\/direct-object-marker-1\/\">the direct object marker<\/a>, and <a title=\"Ez\u0101fe 1\" href=\"http:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/persian_online_resources\/language-specific-grammar\/ezfe\/\">ez\u0101fe<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Persian language is not as complicated as some other languages. For instance, it does not have <strong>gender<\/strong>, as do French and Arabic; dual, as does Arabic, or <strong>case inflections<\/strong>, as does German. In addition to the copulative set, there are basically two sets of <strong>endings<\/strong>: one for verbs (with the exception of the third singular, which does not take an ending in the past tense), and another for possessive and objective cases both.<\/p>\n<p>Since <a href=\"http:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/persian_online_resources\/language-specific-grammar\/diglossia\/\"><strong>diglossia<\/strong><\/a> (the difference between the formal written and the spoken variations) is one of the main features of the Persian language the spoken (colloquial) variations of the examples and paradigms are often included throughout this site. The emphasis in this grammar is on the written form, because, after learning the rules, the spoken form is largely predictable.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to diglossia, another characteristic of Persian is <a href=\"http:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/persian_online_resources\/phonology\/suppletion\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>suppletion<\/strong><\/a>\u2014that is, using different roots of morphemes for different tenses, comparison of adjectives, etc. This is an Indo-European feature, which is shared by many IE languages.  This should not be seen as alarming. As rapidly as you learned <em>was ~ am <\/em>(as an English speaker), you will find yourself having no trouble recognizing words in Persian.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some parts of grammar are specific to certain languages. In Persian, this material consists of digar, magar, diglossia, the direct object marker, and ez\u0101fe. Persian language is not as complicated as some other languages. For instance, it does not have gender, as do French and Arabic; dual, as does Arabic, or case inflections, as does [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":289,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-51","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/persian_online_resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/51","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/persian_online_resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/persian_online_resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/persian_online_resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/289"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/persian_online_resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/persian_online_resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/51\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":742,"href":"https:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/persian_online_resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/51\/revisions\/742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/persian_online_resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}