This book is concerned with the issue of predication as the central
theme of all linguistic theories. In some languages 'verbs' are not the
only predicative elements. Other word categories have the same
capability. This book focuses on the constructions where a predicative
adjective or preposition fuses with a 'bleached verb' as the
impoverished form of the verbal element to form what is called a complex
predicate or 'nuclear juncture'. The framework adopted here is Role and
Reference Grammar theory (Van Valin, 2005).
These complex predicates in Persian have received little attention in
literature and the few studies carried out have not provided a detailed
analysis of these nuclear junctures. Complex Predicates in Modern
Persian scrutinizes the types of adjectives/prepositions used in these
constructions and the syntax-semantics interface using the data in
Persian, one of the oldest Indo-European languages.