Word construction
Fatemeh Zohrabi; Adel rafiei
Volume 16, Issue 1 , August 2024, , Pages 109-128
Abstract
The present study examined compound words ending in the past stem "Gasht" in construction morphology. This research tried to describe the diachronic and synchronic of the semantic variations and the schematic system of the words resulting from this construction. The data included 202 compound words collected ...
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The present study examined compound words ending in the past stem "Gasht" in construction morphology. This research tried to describe the diachronic and synchronic of the semantic variations and the schematic system of the words resulting from this construction. The data included 202 compound words collected from diachronic and synchronic corpuses of the Persian language, dictionaries, and Google search engine. Descriptive-analytical method was used to to answer these questions: what are the systematic semantic variations of the compound words taken from the past stem "Gasht"? What is the superlative construction of compound words derived from the past stem "Gasht"? What are the variations of this construction in diachronic view? For this purpose, the extracted words were classified into four semantic categories based on their meaning. Then the main schema was determined. Diachronic studies showed that from this construction in the past centuries, the word "Golgasht" was created in a different meaning from what is used today. We also see changes in the functioning of this construction in the social media. By taking diachronic changes and describing the synchronicity of this construction, the schematic system of the construction [x- gasht] was obtained. In the schematic system of this construction, two productive constructions and two static constructions are evident.
