Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Table of contents -- Introduction -- 1 The alleged Persian-Germanic connection: A remarkable chapter in the study of Persian from the sixteenth through the nineteenth centuries1 -- 2 Huihuiguan zazi: A New Persian glossary compiled in Ming China -- 3 Glimpses of Balochi lexicography: Some iconyms for the landscape and their motivation -- 4 On some Iranian secret vocabularies, as evidenced by a fourteenth-century Persian manuscript -- 5 Specialization of an ancient object marker in the New Persian of the fifteenth century1 -- 6 Fillers, emphasizers, and other adjuncts in spoken Dari and Pashto -- 7 The historically unmotivated majhul vowel as a significant areal dialectological feature -- 8 Variability in Persian forms of address as represented in the works of Iranian playwrights -- 9 Some linguistic indicators of sociocultural formality in Persian -- 10 Spoken vs. written Persian: Is Persian diglossic? -- 11 Accounting for *yek ta in Persian -- 12 The associative plural and related constructions in Persian -- 13 Revisiting the status of -eš in Persian1 -- 14 'Difficult' and 'easy' in Ossetic -- 15 Possessive construction in Kurdish -- 16 To bring the distant near: On deixis in Iranian oral literature -- 17 Extracting semantic similarity from Persian texts -- List of contributors -- Index