In this chapter, we investigate post-predicate elements in written Early New Persian texts from four different sources, covering the 10th to 13th centuries. The analysis shows that post-predicate elements are overall far less frequent than in contemporary spoken Persian corpora, and that the effect of semantic role is negligible. In the written texts investigated here, post-verbal elements do not form a semantically homogenous group, and goals are not more prone to postposing than other roles. However, we do find an overall effect of weight, with heavier constituents more likely to be postposed, as well as an effect of register.
