A Study of Two Syntactic Constructions in the Pahlavi Translation of the Avesta (Zand)

The present article aims to study two syntactic constructions in the Pahlavi translation of the Avesta (Zand). Firstly, it deals with the Pahlavi rendering of Avestan future passive participle in -iia- which bears the same concept as Avestan and has probably no more remained in Zoroastrian Middle Persian. Thereafter, it discusses the syntactic construction which is the translation of those Avestan verbs that are constructed on intensive stems and exists in Zoroastrian Middle Persian, conveying the same meaning as absolutive object in Arabic.