Lexical categories in Persian

Lingua

Volumn 121, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 207-220

  Karimi Doostan, G H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

Lexical categories; Mismatching words; Persian word classes; Words classification

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954789974     PISSN: 00243841     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2010.06.014     Document Type: Article

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