Hierarchical Schematicity in the Configuration of Sorani Kurdish Exocentric Compounds Based on Booij’s Construction Morphology

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

• Kourosh Karimi ¹
• Arezoo Najafian ²
• Razieh Mahdi Beyraghdar ³
• Seyed Mohammad Hosseini-Maasoum ⁴

¹ Ph.D Student of Linguistics, Department of Linguistics and Foreign Languages, Payame Noor University (PNU), Tehran, Iran.

² Associate Professor in Linguistics, Department of Linguistics and Foreign Languages, Payame Noor University (PNU), Tehran, Iran

³ Assistant Professor in Linguistics, Department of Linguistics and Foreign Languages, Payame Noor University (PNU), Tehran, Iran.

⁴ Associate Professor in Linguistics, Department of Linguistics and Foreign Languages, Payame Noor University (PNU), Tehran, Iran.

https://doi.org/10.22067/jlkd.2024.86478.1230

Abstract

The present paper is an attempts to obtain the hierarchical Schematic system governing the formation of Sorani Kurdish exocentric nominal compounds an endeavor to achieve their general meaning making model via the application of analytical-descriptive method based on Booij's (2010) construction morphology framework. In the first phase (data collection) 1400 nominal compounds found in Kurdish-Persian dictionary of Hanbane Burina (Sharafkandi, 1991) and Persian-Kurdish dictionary of university of Kurdistan (2014). Data analysis phase initiated with the identification of exocentric nominal compounds among the provided corpus by making use Scalise and Goyura's (2011) hyponymy test beside two of the author's judgement as native speakers of Sorani Kurdish. Finally 842 instantiations or 60percent of whole found Exocentric. The obtained results showed that Sorani Kurdish exocentric compounds dominated by one Macro-Schema, 12 Second order-Schemas and 54 sub-Schemas. Results of the research can be counted as a proof for the fact that nominal compounds of this type neither in form nor in semantic specifications are not in total agreement with constituting elements. I other word the rupture of motivation and blockage of the relationship between form and meaning is not a general feature among all exocentric compounds while instantiations of this type cover a wide range of words with less dark meaning to absolutely dark lexical items. Accordingly Some of the nominal compounds don't benefited from formal head while the output constructions fall under Noun as their parts of speech thus it is the scheme which are effective both in determination of formal and semantic characteristics manifested in the output.

Keywords

• Sorani Kurdish"
• Construction Morphology"
• Nominal Compounds"
• Exocentric"
• "
• Hierarchical Schematicity"

Main Subjects

• Word construction