| Editors' Preface | 7 | 
| Part I. Historical and Comparative Iranian Syntax | 
|   | Definite Articles in Bactrian SALOUMEH GHOLAMI
 | 11 | 
|   | Differential Object Marking in Bactrian NICHOLAS SIMS-WILLIAMS
 | 23 | 
|   | The Emergence and Development of the Sogdian Perfect ANTJE WENDTLAND
 | 39 | 
|   | Pronouns as Verbs, Verbs as Pronouns: 
Demonstratives and the Copula in Iranian AGNES KORN
 | 53 | 
|   | Counterfactual Mood in Iranian ARSENIY VYDRIN
 | 71 | 
| Part II. The Morpho-Syntax of Lesser-known Iranian Languages | 
|   | A Glance at the Deixis of Nominal Demonstratives in Iranian Taleshi DANIEL PAUL
 | 89 | 
|   | Valence Sensitivity in Pamirian Past-tense Inflection: 
A Realizational Analysis GREGORY STUMP, ANDREW HIPPISLEY
 | 103 | 
|   | Participle-Converbs in Iron Ossetic: 
Syntactic and Semantic Properties OLEG BELYAEV, ARSENIY VYDRIN
 | 117 | 
|   | On Negation, Negative Concord, 
and Negative Imperatives in Digor Ossetic DAVID ERSCHLER, VITALY VOLK
 | 135 | 
| Part III. Linguistics of Modern Persian | 
|   | Reducing the Number of Farsi Epenthetic Consonants NAVID NADERI, MARC VAN OOSTENDORP
 | 153 | 
|   | On Direct Objects in Persian: 
The Case of the Non-râ-Marked DOs SHADI GANJAVI
 | 167 | 
|   | Finite Control in Persian MOHAMMADREZA PIROOZ
 | 183 | 
|   | Bilingual Speech of Highly Proficient Persian-French Speakers FARZANEH DERAVI, JEAN-YVES DOMMERGUES
 | 197 | 
| List of Contributors | 213 |