Semantic spaces of Persian light verbs : : a constructionist account / / Neifoular Family.

• Superior document: Brill's Studies in South and Southwest Asian Languages, Volume 6
• VerfasserIn: Family, Neiloufar
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden : : BRILL,, 2014.; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Brill's studies in South and Southwest Asian languages ; 6.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (251 pages)
• Notes: Revised version of the author's thesis (PhD)--École des hautes études en sciences sociales in Paris, 2006.; "Originally wrote this work as a PhD dissertation in 2006, at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales in Paris, funded by the École doctorale Cerveau-cognition-comportement (ed 3c)."

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.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- 1 Foundations -- 2 Light Verb Constructions in Persian -- 3 Clusters of Productivity in Six Frequent lvs -- 4 Clusters of Productivity in Eight More lvs -- 5 Alternating Clusters -- 6 Reflections on Semantic Spaces and Constructions -- References -- Index.