Semantic Spaces of Persian Light Verbs

A Constructionist Account
Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-90-04-24302-6
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 6, 240 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 522 g

Reihe: Brill's Studies in South and Southwest Asian Languages

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Family, Neiloufar

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Einzelne Sprachen & Sprachfamilien
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Grammatik, Syntax, Morphologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Semantik & Pragmatik

Über Autor(innen)

Neiloufar Family, Ph.D. (2006), Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, is Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Kaiserslautern. Her publications include several articles on Persian verbs as well as original Persian child language corpora. Her current research focuses on psycholinguistics.