Persidskii iazyk elementarnaia grammatika (The Persian Language, Elementary Grammar)

Ann Arbor: University Microfilms, Inc, ND. Reprint. Paperback. g+. Quarto. 207pp. Original wrappers with title pasted on front cover. From the collection of Herbert H. Paper* on front free endpaper, and dated 1960. Photocopy of the original edition of Lev Ivanovich Zhirkov's Persidskii iazyk elementarnaia grammatika (Elementary Grammar of the Persian Language), originaly published in 1927. Zhirkov was a celebrated Soviet linguist who studied Caucasian languages (mainly of Dagestan) and Iranian languages. He researched problems of general as well as applied linguistics (the creation of alphabets, orthographies, grammars, and dictionaries for the languages of the peoples of the USSR; interlinguistics). Wrappers sunned along edges. Text in Russian and Persian. * Dr. Herbert Harry Paper (1925-2012) was Professor Emeritus of Linguistics and near Eastern Languages, and the Editor of the Hebrew Union College Annual, HUC-JIR/Cincinnati. He received a doctorate from the University of Chicago. Dr. Paper taught at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, and joined HUC-JIR as the Dean of Graduate Studies. His specialties were Persian studies, concentrating on the history of the Persian language and on the ancient languages of Iran, and Yiddish literature.