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Semantic spaces of Persian light verbs / by Neiloufar Family.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Family, Neiloufar.
- Series:
- Brill's studies in South and Southwest Asian languages ; 6.
- Brill's studies in South and Southwest Asian languages ; v. 6
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Persian language--Verb.
- Persian language.
- Persian language--Compound words.
- Persian language--Semantics.
- Persian language--Grammar.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (251 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2014]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In Semantic Spaces 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 system that has been notoriously difficult to classify. Using diagrams as visual aids, Neiloufar Family takes a novel, bottom-up approach to analysing the light verb system, starting from small sets of constructions and mapping out consistent patterns. Her analysis leads to a deeper understanding of the structure of semantic spaces within the verbal system in Persian, and other languages that use light verbs. This research provides a blueprint for understanding existing verbal constructions and productively creating new ones.
- Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- 1 Foundations
- 2 Light Verb Constructions in Persian
- 3 Clusters of Productivity in Six Frequent lvs
- 4 Clusters of Productivity in Eight More lvs
- 5 Alternating Clusters
- 6 Reflections on Semantic Spaces and Constructions
- References
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Revised version of the author's thesis (PhD)--École des hautes études en sciences sociales in Paris, 2006.
- "Originally wrote this work as a PhD dissertation in 2006, at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales in Paris, funded by the École doctorale Cerveau-cognition-comportement (ed 3c)."
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9789004274419
- 9004274413
- OCLC:
- 890807985
- Publisher Number:
- 10.1163/9789004274419 DOI
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