Bøger af Shahrzad Mahootian

Explores language in an accessible way from an applied linguistics perspective. Specifically, students are introduced to the forms, social varieties, and functions of language, and how language is acquired, is organised in the brain, changes over time, and is sometimes lost.

Persian, or Farsi, is one of the world's oldest languages. Dating back to the sixth century BC, it is spoken today by over forty million people in Iran and 5 million in Afghanistan. This title provides coverage of its linguistic aspects, including the syntax, morphology and phonology.