The Study of Complement Clauses in Persian and the Ways to Include them in Monolingual Dictionaries

The paper first shows that complement clauses, such as direct and indirect objects, are the complements of some Persian verbs. The verbs that take complement clauses are then classified into two general groups of personal and impersonal, investigating their features based on the concord of the verb of complement clause with the subject of the main clause (including the possibilities of [+ concord], [-concord] and [± concord] as well as the mood of complement clause (including the possibility of [+ subjunctive], [-subjunctive] and [þ subjunctive]. The need to present these information in Persian dictionaries is discussed and guidelines for their presentation are given.