فاطمه نعمتی

Complex Predicates have been a source of controversy in many languages, leading to different explanations in different theoretical frameworks such as Hale and Keyser (1993), Alsina (1993), Pustejovsky (1995), Butt (1995) and Ramchand (2008) to name but a few. Complex predicates have also been investigated in Persian (Vahedi-Langrudi, 1996; Dabir-Moghaddam, 1997; Karimi, 1997; Karimi-Doostan,1997; Megerdoomian, 2006; Pantcheva, 2009; Nemati, 2010b) and other Iranian languages (Jahani, 2011; Korn, 2013). This paper is an attempt to further studies on complex predicates, specially in Iranian languages and to shed light on the morphosyntactic characteristics of complex predicates in Delvari-a southwestern Iranian language (Mamasani, 2005; Dabir-Moghaddam, 2013; Haig