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This volume is a survey of the historical development of Persian grammar in its Western Branch, within the larger division of Persian linguistic scholarship. It focuses on the contributions of a number of distinguished scholars, including Sir William Jones, John Platts, Matthew Lumsden, D. C. Phillott, and A. K. S. Lambton, among others, who have used their deep knowledge of the Persian language, its literature, and history to illustrate its major structural properties and parametric variations. The outstanding linguistic and pedagogical achievements of these scholars, for whom Persian is a foreign language, must inspire our admiration, for the expression of which we do not have adequate words.

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The major research innovation in Soheili's (2019) analysis is the thorough investigation of a vast number of both traditional and modern Persian grammar descriptions which allows the author to track the historical developments in Persian linguistic scholarship when adequate multiple criteria of analysis are applied. By way of the clear criteria, he points out the most relevant and less adequate issues about the grammatical descriptions and their methodological procedures. Somaje Abdollahian BaroughDepartment of English, Stockholm University

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Dr A. Soheili holds a BA and MA in TEFL, and received a PhD in Linguistics from the University of Illinois. He has over thirty years' experience of teaching, translation, and research studies in the field of Persian linguistics. He has a number of publications to his credit, including a survey of the historical development of Persian grammar in its Eastern Branch, from the first attested document up to the present today.

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