Hi,
We don't write Ezafe in noun phrase constituents; however, we pronounce them. In proper noun phrases, we use Ezafe in spoken language if there is one. e.g. Mohsen -e- Mohamadi. Ezafe in the form of Kasreh is kind of Persianizer in our language. We use it only in spoken language in noun phrases as well as in place of the linking verb (ast). e.g. hava khub -e (the weather is good).
Regarding the ZWNJ, I recently processed a corpus of 5 million Persian words. There were 3200 occurances of ZWNJ in compound verbs, nouns and inflected nouns. This 3200 words were among 80000 unique words extracted from the text corpus.
For your information the single letter word /va/ in Persian had a frequency of 43000 in my corpus which was the most frequent word in our language.
Peyman
C Bobroff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
C Bobroff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Mon, 7 Jun 2004, Roozbeh Pournader wrote:
> http://www.farsiweb.info/locale/locale-0.6.pdf
Congratulations on getting a new typist who is not allergic to
Hamzeh's!
But where did all the Kasreh's marking Ezafeh's go this time? And why no
ZWNJ on plural -Ha's?
Is that really true you aren't supposed to put a written Kasreh after
given names? I know it's definitely not ok (spoken or written) with
"Rezaa" ending in long "aa" but with "Mohsen" ending in a consonant? I
believe it is common to both write and pronounce the "-e" there between
given and family name. Please inform me.
By the way, I have received a PDF file from Iran recently in Persian and
it was possible to copy and paste from the PDF text into Notepad and all
the letters came out perfectly, only the letters were running backwards
from left to right. I can! 't seem to copy and paste with yours. It ends up
in garbage characters. Wish I knew these PDF secrets!
-Connie
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