The present paper deals with the origin of the ezafe construction in Persian. It demonstrates how in Old Persian a relative pronoun (hya-) ‘who/ which’ in sentences with omitted copula was interpreted as a “connector”/ ...

The present paper deals with the origin of the ezafe construction in Persian. It demonstrates how in Old Persian a relative pronoun (hya-) ‘who/ which’ in sentences with omitted copula was interpreted as a “connector”/ ...

The major aim of this study was to find out whether there was any significant difference between types of verbs and the textbooks used in different fields of study in the light of Halliday’s Systemic Functional Grammar model (1994). 90 ESP texts...

This paper reports findings from an experimental study of the effect of implicit

instruction of grammar via specially-designed pictures on the writing and speaking

abilities of elementary EFL learners. It was conducted on 66...