Word construction
Kourosh Karimi; Arezoo Najafian; Razieh Mahdi Beyraghdar; Seyed Mohammad Hosseini-Maasoum
Articles in Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available Online from 10 March 2024
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 ...
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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.
Syntax
Sahar Mohammadian; Bahram Modarresi; Foroogh Kazemi; Setareh Majidi
Volume 14, Issue 4 , March 2023, , Pages 39-77
Abstract
Dabir-Moghaddam (1972,2004) believes that -râ, moreover, is syntactically the function word of the explicit object, can also be informationally the marker of its secondary topic. Meanwhile, some researchers have challenged the use of -râ as a secondary topic marker in the explicit object ...
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Dabir-Moghaddam (1972,2004) believes that -râ, moreover, is syntactically the function word of the explicit object, can also be informationally the marker of its secondary topic. Meanwhile, some researchers have challenged the use of -râ as a secondary topic marker in the explicit object when it is indefinite or when it is considered as an informative focus in response to the speaker's question in the discourse context. They have considered the marker-râ being fastened on factors such as identifiability, specificity, and definiteness. The current study's goal is to examine the marker-râ using the LFG approach of King (1997), Butt & King (2000), and Abubakari (2018), relying on the definitions provided by the secondary topic by Dabir-Moghaddam (1972,2004), Dalrymple & Nikolaeva (2011). The research methodology is descriptive-analytical, and the data was collected in two ways: in the library and field. The findings reveal that in the f-structure, the grammatical preposition-râ is placed in the (PFORM) feature and can indicate the grammatical function of the theme/patient oblique instead of the grammatical function of the explicit object. In the i-structure, -râ is placed in the (DFORM) feature and leads to secondary topic marking. In the c-structure, as the preposition's head, it also causes the formation of the prepositional phrase. Also, in the above-mentioned challenging cases, it has been shown that with a suggestion of the layered i-structure, the râ-Marker as a (DFORM) marks secondary topic at the sentence level and the secondary topic can be placed on the inner or outer layer of other informative elements at a level beyond the sentence. Therefore, it can be concluded that the mentioned approach in the LFG in line with the opinion of Dabir-Moghaddam (1972,2004) on the effect of syntactic and informational factors on the occurrence of -râ, can show a comprehensive representation of the marker-râ.
Word construction
Parya Razmdideh; Sara Kheyrmand
Volume 12, Issue 2 , December 2020, , Pages 59-98
Abstract
“nɑme”-last complex words have rarely been examined in Persian morphology. In this study, examining the function of “nɑme” in the word-formation of Complex words which is embedded as a shared constituent, the polysemous patterns have been analyzed in the framework of construction ...
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“nɑme”-last complex words have rarely been examined in Persian morphology. In this study, examining the function of “nɑme” in the word-formation of Complex words which is embedded as a shared constituent, the polysemous patterns have been analyzed in the framework of construction morphology (Booij, 2010). To fulfill this purpose, 102 “nɑme”-last complex words have been gathered from 3 Persian dictionaries including Zansoo (1994), Sokhan (2003), and Dehkhoda (1999) which have been classified in 12 extensions of meaning, adopting generalized holistic constructional schema which govern less abstract subschemas as meaning extensions derived from conceptual mechanisms. Achievements depicted that image schemas, metonymy, and metaphor are the chief forces in getting “nɑme”, polysemous in the examined complex words. Additionally, the other possibilities such as bound meaning in terms of constructional idiom, hierarchical lexicon, and default inheritance contributed by construction morphology indicated that “nɑme”-last complex words are governed by the so-called constructional idiom as a kind of constructional schema in which a fixed lexical unit with bound meaning is embedded. This justifies how “nɑme” is positioned in the fuzzy boundary between compounding and derivation as a “affixoid” which is grammaticalizing.
