[Review of:] Robin Meyer. Iranian Syntax in Classical Armenian: The Armenian Perfect and Other Cases of Pattern Replication

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023. xx + 310 pp. (Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics, 53.) ISBN: 9780198851097

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https://doi.org/10.30842/30346800.2025.1.2.8

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Armenian, Language contact, Parthian, Pattern replication

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Bolognesi 1960 — G. Bolognesi. Le fonti dialettali degli imprestiti iranici in armeno [The dialectal sources of Iranian borrowings in Armenian]. Milano: Uni­versità Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, 1960.

Fattori 2023a — M. Fattori. Armenian Stem Classes and the Western-Middle Iranian Oblique Plural Case. Studi e Saggi Linguistici. 2023. Vol. 61. No. 1. P. 107–122. DOI: 10.4454/ssl.v61i1.326.

Fattori 2023b — M. Fattori. Contributions to Iranian Etymology I. Some Iranian Words in Greek Sources. Orientalia. 2023. Vol. 92. No. 3. P. 380–399.

Fattori 2024 — M. Fattori. Constructions in contact between Armenian and Iranian: Arm. karem, the Iranian “potential” construction, and marginal notes on Arm. bawem and kari. Indo-European Linguistics. 2024. Vol. 12. No. 1. P. 1–25. DOI: 10.1163/22125892-bja10035.

Kölligan 2024 — D. Kölligan. Complex predicates and light verb con-structions in Classical Armenian. P. Cotticelli-Kurras, F. J. De Decker (eds). Berthold Delbrück, Historical and Comparative Indo-European Syntax 1922–2022. Proceedings of the International Conference Delbrück Colloquium on Historical and Comparative Syntax of In-do-European, held in Verona on November 9–12, 2022. Wiesbaden: Reichert, 2024. P. 351–370.

Schmitt 1983 – R. Schmitt. Iranisches Lehngut im Armenischen. Revue des Études Arméniennes. 1983. Vol. 17. P. 73–112.

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[Review of:] Robin Meyer. Iranian Syntax in Classical Armenian: The Armenian Perfect and Other Cases of Pattern Replication: Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023. xx + 310 pp. (Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics, 53.) ISBN: 9780198851097. (2025). Indo-Iranian Languages, 1(2), 196–201. https://doi.org/10.30842/30346800.2025.1.2.8