Volume 7, Issue 2 (2016)
LRR 2016, 7(2): 207-222 |
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1- Assistant Professor of Linguistics, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran
2- M.A. in Linguistics, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran
2- M.A. in Linguistics, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran
Abstract: (6270 Views)
This research seeks to find, which of NP and DP’s models may accurately describe the relationship between the head and its dependent(s), based on minimalism in Persian language. The method of study is descriptive-analytic. This study was performed by comparing English sources with Persian ones. The samples were selected by the intuition of the researcher in a way that aspects of differences between these two models can be shown. We contrasted the data based on two models, the traditional model which takes N as the head of the phrase and the new model in which the head of the phrase is a determiner and NP is a complement headed by “D”. By analyzing of NPs, tree diagrams were drawn by comparing the aforementioned models we concluded that DP model represent a better description of the head-dependent relations, and NP model can be replaced by the DP to draw structural relationships of sentences.
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