Semantic spaces of Persian light verbs / by Neifoular Family.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Family, Neifoular.

Series:

Brill's studies in South and Southwest Asian languages ; v. 6.

Brill's studies in South and Southwest Asian languages ; Volume 6

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Persian language--Verb.

Persian language.

Persian language--Compound words.

Persian language--Semantics.

Persian language--Grammar.

Physical Description:

ix, 239 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2014]

Summary:

In Semantic Space of Persian Light Verbs, Neiloufar Family exposes the semantic organization of light verb constructions in Persian. By clustering constructions based on semantic properties, she provides an insightful and more global view of a systems that has been notoriously difficult to classify. Using diagrams as visual aids, Neiloufar Family takes a novel, bottom, up approach to analyzing the light verb system, starting from small sets of constructions and mapping our consistent patterns. Her analysis leads to a deeper understanding of the structure of semantic spaces within the verbal system in Persian, and other language that use light verbs. This research provides a blueprint for understanding existing verbal constructions and productively creating new ones. Book jacket.

Contents:

Foundations 1

1.1 Introduction 1

1.2 Light Verb Constructions 5

1.2.1 First Studies on LVCS 6

1.2.2 Light Verb Languages 7

1.3 Productivity 10

1.4 Persian 14

1.5 Construction Grammar 18

1.6 Outline of the Book 21

2 Light Verb Constructions in Persian 25

2.1 Persian LVS and PVS 25

2.2 Previous Studies 26

2.2.1 Lexical or Syntactic Status 27

2.2.2 Focus on Aspect and Event Structure 35

2.2.3 Focus on Noun Incorporation 39

2.2.4 Focus on Idioms 40

2.2.5 Interim Summary 41

2.3 A New Approach 42

2.3.1 Looking at the Data 42

2.3.2 Productivity in Persian LVCS 45

2.4 Clusters of Productivity 46

2.4.1 The Patterns 46

2.4.2 Clusters of Productivity 48

2.4.3 Transparency and Clusters 52

2.4.4 Cluster Alternations 54

2.5 Chapter Summary 55

3 Clusters of Productivity in Six Frequent LVS 57

3.1 Cluster Diagrams and Annotations 57

3.1.1 The Diagrams 57

3.1.2 Argument Structure 59

3.1.3 Aspect 59

3.1.4 Criteria for Clusters 60

3.2 Kærdæn 'To Do' 61

3.3 ∞odæn' To Become' 66

3.4 Zædeen 'To Hit' 70

3.5 Xordæn 'To Eat' 94

3.6 Dadæn 'To Give' 105

3.7 Gereftæn 'To Get' 132

4 Clusters of Productivity in Eight More LVS 154

4.1 Ke∞idæn 'To Pull' 154

4.2 Ændaxtæn 'To Throw' 161

4.3 Oftadæn 'To Fall' 165

4.4 Daftæn 'To Have' 169

4.5 Aværdasn 'To Bring' 175

4.6 Amærdeen To Come' 179

4.7 Bordæn 'To Take' 183

4.8 Raeftæn 'To Go' 187

5 Alternating Clusters 191

5.1 Past Studies on Alternating Constructions 191

5.1.1 Alternations in Other Languages 191

5.1.3 Alternations in Persian 193

5.2 Alternations: A Case of Shared Clusters 194

5.3.1 Alternations between kærdæn and ∞odæn 195

5.2.1 Alternations between zædæn and xordæn 197

5.2.2 Finer-Grained Alternations 201

5.3.1 Is it just Transitivity? 303

5.2.1 Alternations between dadæn and gereftæn 307

5.3 Other LV Alternations 210

5.4 Chapter Review 210

6 Reflections on Semantic Spaces and Constructions 212

6.1 On Constructions 213

6.1.1 Transparency and Productivity 213

6.1.2 Post-Hoc Meaning Attributions 215

6.1.3 A Special Type of Construction 217

6.2 How Can the Analysis be Applied 221

6.2.1 Loan Words 221

6.2.2 A Neurolinguistic Study 223

6.2.3 A Child Language Study 224

6.3 Reflections on Differences 226

6.3.1 Differences with Simple Verb Languages 226

6.3.2 Why not Only Two LVS? 228

6.4 Book Summary 229.

Notes:

Revision of the author's thesis (PhD)--Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris, 2006.

"Originally wrote this work as a PhD dissertation in 2006, at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris, funded by the Ecole Doctorale Cerveau-Cognition-Comportement (ed 3c)."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9789004243026

900424302X

OCLC:

890807985