An Investigation of Demonstrative, Interrogative, and Exclamatory Adjectives in Persian Literary Texts

Abstract

Adjective is one of the categories of Persian language that has different types and is discussed from different points of views. Demonstrative, interrogative and exclamatory adjectives are three types of non-rhetorical adjectives that have undergone some structural and functional changes from the past to the present. These adjective categories have remained with the same structures or functions of the past or have undergone more or fewer changes over time. The investigation of these three adjective categories along with an historical account of the literary works could be revealing for readers. The present study, drawing on various types of literary texts, mainly the masterpieces of their own periods, on the one hand analyzes the structures and functions of the three adjectives categories, and on the other hand, makes it possible for the readers to figure out the differences and similarities from one period to the other. Since a deep analysis of the three grammatical categories requires a wide literary corpus, the researchers decided to broaden their corpus and examine various types of texts.

Keywords

• adjective
• analysis
• reference
• question
• surprise