Radif in Shahnameh

Document Type : Research Paper

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This paper is a statistical study of Radif in Shahnameh. Repetition of Radif in Shahnameh is mostly composed of more than one word. Most of these repetitions are constituted by verb structure. Next to verb repetitions the frequency of pronoun repetition is quite high. The paper indicates that 7652 lines out of 48601 include Radifwhich compose %15.74 of the whole corpus.