Analysis of the Syntactic Layers in Zayn al-Akhbar by Gardizi
Subject Areas : Persian language and literature textsShaban ShafieNassab 1 , mohammadali gozashti 2 , alieh yoseffam 3
1 - PhD student, Department of Persian Language and Literature, Islamic Azad University, Central Tehran Branch, Tehran, Iran.
2 - Associate Professor, Islamic Azad University, Central Tehran Branch, Tehran, Iran.
3 - Assistant Professor, Islamic Azad University, Central Tehran Branch, Tehran, Iran.
Keywords: نثر, Prose, Coordination, زین الاخبار, گردیزی, سامانی, همپایه, Zayn al-Akhbar, Gardizi, the Samanids,
Abstract :
Zayn al-Akhbar, by Abu Sa’id Abd al-Hayy Gardizi, isa history book that narrates the general history and incidents of Iran up to the year of 443 (AH), when it was written. The book has a simple and concise style resembling the Samanids’. It comprises short and connected sentences linked together with the coordinating conjunction “and”, specified by the term “coordinate style”. The frequency of Arabic words is a little more than that of the Samanid prose. Yet, it is somehow the continuation of the same prose of the Samanids era in terms of its stylistic features such as repetition, collocations, as well as the oldness of the text and its syntactic patterns. This is a descriptive-analytic paper.
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