Eliana
Kessler
Department of Linguistics
Subject: Valency Patterns and Alignment in Middle Persian
Supervisor: Dr. Eitan Grossman
Abstract: Middle Persian is a southwestern Iranian language, documented from the second century BCE to the ninth century CE. In my thesis I will use a large Middle Persian corpus to examine the valency patterns of approximately 70 verbs and describe the argument structure properties of different valency patterns in Middle Persian.