TABLE OF CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- RECENT ADVANCES IN PERSIAN LEXICOGRAPHY -- A LINK GRAMMAR PARSER FOR PERSIAN -- CLASSIFIERS, PLURAL AD DEFINITENESS IN PERSIAN -- OPTIONALITY AND VARIATION -- MARKEDNESS AND BARE NOUNS IN PERSIAN -- THE EMERGENCE OF ERGATIVITY IN IRANIAN -- THE NOUN PHRASE IN HAWRAMI -- EXPRESSIONS OF FUTURE IN CLASSICAL AND MODERN NEW PERSIAN -- RAISING AND CONTROL IN PERSIAN -- EVENT STRUCTURE OF VERBAL NOUNS AND LIGHT VERBS -- DIFFERENT OBJECT MARKING IN A MEDIEVAL PERSIAN TEXT -- MARKING OF ARGUMENTS IN BALOCHI ERGATIVE AND MIXED CONSTRUCTIONS -- INVERSION AND TOPICALIZATION IN FARSI DISCOURSE -- ASPECTS OF AGRAMMATIC LANGUAGE IN PERSIAN -- THE INDIVIDUATING FUNCTION OF THE PERSIAN "INDEFINITE SUFFIX" -- SOME REMARKS ON THE PERSIAN SUFFIX -- THE EZAFE AS A HEAD-MARKING INFLECTIONAL AFFIX -- TWO SETS OF MOBILE VERBAL PERSON AGREEMENT MARKERS IN THE NORTHERN TALYSHI LANGUAGE -- MOOD AND MODALITY IN PERSIAN -- ON ERGATIVITY IN THE PAMIR LANGUAGES -- INDEX.