This book presents a comprehensive corpus-based pedagogical grammar of the Persian verbal system specifically designed for Iraqi Arabic-speaking learners. The Persian verb system constitutes one of the most challenging aspects of Persian grammar for second language learners, involving complex morphological structures, intricate semantic distinctions, and sophisticated discourse functions. For Iraqi Arabic speakers, whose first language organizes verbal information through fundamentally different morphological and syntactic principles, acquiring Persian verbal morphology requires reconceptualizing how languages encode temporal, aspectual, and modal meanings.
The book systematically addresses six major domains: theoretical foundations establishing the linguistic framework and contrastive analysis between Persian and Iraqi Arabic verbal systems; morphological structure including the binary stem system, person-number agreement, and inflectional patterns; tense, aspect, and mood categories with detailed semantic-functional analysis; the distinctive Persian compound verb system combining preverbal elements with light verbs; verbal valency and argument structure exploring transitivity, causatives, and passives; and discourse functions examining how verbal morphology structures narratives and expresses epistemic stance.
Grounded in second language acquisition theory and cognitive approaches to morphological processing, each chapter provides explicit contrastive analysis identifying facilitative transfer and predicted difficulties, accompanied by targeted pedagogical recommendations and teaching strategies. The book serves language instructors, curriculum developers, applied linguists, and advanced learners seeking detailed understanding of Persian verbal morphology from a learner-specific, contrastively-informed perspective.
Amir Karimipour
Fremdsprachenerwerb Linguistik Persisch Arabisch