From To Have Power

The root of Persian impersonal verbs is in Old and Middle Persian and the study of these verbs in Persian is impossible without a detailed study of their ancient forms. One of these impersonal verbs in Persian is ÊæÇä /tawân/. It is the equivalent of Middle Persian tuwān which, despite its frequent use inMiddle Persian texts, has been the subject of many controversies. In Middle Persian there are nominal sentences known as nominal sentences of possession which convey the meaning “to have”. The aim of this paper is firstly to determine the morphological category and the exact meaning of tuwān, and secondly to verify that the deep structure of the impersonal verb tuwān is, in fact, a nominal sentence of possession.