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A-Z 881PermicFinno-Ugricpermutation [Lat. permutare ‘to exchange’]1 Generally, the reordering of constituents. In the framework of generativetransformational grammar, a formal two-step operation ( operational procedures)by which an element is placed in another position via substitution, and then deleted in itsoriginal position.Referencestransformational grammar2 In word order and linear syntax. term for reordering processes such asextraposition and topicalization.word orderReferencespermutation transformationtransformationmovementperseverative assimilationassimilationPersian (also Farsi)Largest Iranian language (about 50 million speakers), official language of Iran, inaddition approx. 5 million speakers in Afghanistan (Dari dialect) and 2.2 million speakersin Tajikistan. Modern Persian, of which the first documentation occurs in the eighthcentury, is not a direct descendant of a Middle Iranian dialect. The lexicon was strongly