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.
Word construction
Saeed Akabri; Aazanin Amir Arjmandi; Marjan Taheri Oskuei; Mahnaz Karbalaei Sadegh
Volume 15, Issue 1 , May 2023, , Pages 1-22
Abstract
The present research investigates the productivity of nounmaker derivational suffixes in modern Persian language based on the theoretical framework of Plag(2003). For this purpose, the authors have selected 63 sources existing in the Persian Language databese (PLDB) which included 2/260/868 words and ...
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The present research investigates the productivity of nounmaker derivational suffixes in modern Persian language based on the theoretical framework of Plag(2003). For this purpose, the authors have selected 63 sources existing in the Persian Language databese (PLDB) which included 2/260/868 words and have extracted 3907derivative nouns with token frequency of 45779 derivative nouns. The method of the present research is descriptive-analytic and data collecting is corpus base. After the study of collected data of research, the authors have concluded that the quantitative method for measuring the productivity of word formation processes introduced by Plag (2003) is to count the outputs of a word formation process. Also, different methods of measuring the productivity rate of noun maker derivational suffixes offer different results. Analysis of the extracted data from the research corpus shows that among the noun maker derivational suffixes in Persian, (/-i/) has the highest productivity and these suffixes (/-ān/, /-ine/, /-iƷe/, /-un/, /-?orænʤǝn/, /-rænʤǝn/, /-ʃǝn/, /-gāle/) have the lowest productivity.
Word construction
Tahereh afshar; Ali Rohi
Volume 12, Issue 2 , December 2020, , Pages 1-32
Abstract
Morphology is one of the most basic parts of linguistics which studies the structure of words . The reduplication process is one of generative processes which in most known languages is a pattern for the production of new words. This study intends to investigate Lori-Dehlorani dialect in the perspective ...
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Morphology is one of the most basic parts of linguistics which studies the structure of words . The reduplication process is one of generative processes which in most known languages is a pattern for the production of new words. This study intends to investigate Lori-Dehlorani dialect in the perspective of reduplication based on the theory of iconicity. The iconicity in this research is studied semantically. The research method has been done using library-descriptive and field research. Using the interview and observation methods, the researchers collected and recorded the informations. Thus, the results of the studies were kept in appropriate tools and they were classified . The semantic and formal classification of reduplicates, which was over 234 cases, was performed in separate tables and their frequency was determined. Semantic classification Based on Rieger model was performed separately for plurality, repetition, baby, spread, intensity, continuation, affection, smallness, non-uniformity, lack of control, completion, contempt, attenuation, In addition, other widely used concepts related to the reduplications include: decrease, increase , distribution were used. Finally, the collected information has been carefully analyzed in order to investigate the issue of reduplication . The results showed that in Lori-Dehlorani dialect with the exception of the concept of plural, there are different types of iconic reduplications but the frequency of them is not the same. Thus, the concept of increase with a frequency of 51 items and the concepts of smallness and contempt each with a frequency of 2 items have the highest and lowest application rates, respectively.
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.
