The constituent structure rules of Old Persian in Behistun Inscription

The present paper investigates the constituent structure rules of Old Persian in Behistun Inscription. Constituent structure rules have the advantage of determining head and its complement in syntactic phrases such as noun phrase, verb phrase, prepositional phrase and adverbial phrase. Data analysis was performed on the basis of examples and sentences which were derived from Old Persian in Behistun Inscription considered as an important and detailed text. The study of Old Persian data and syntactic constituent analysis revealed that in most syntactic phrases the head has tendency to final position. Therefore, on the basis of occurrence frequency, it is possible to classify Old Persian at unmarked structure, as a head-final language.