Adel Rafiei

• University of Isfahan

In this paper we analyse a family of compound constructions in Persian that show two interesting properties: (1) they split into two semantic patterns, human agent noun and instrument noun, and (2) they display categorial ambiguity between noun and adjective. The compounds in question, which are formed with the verbal stem - yāb ‘find’, are collect...

The current paper offers an analysis of a set of 27 entrenched endocentric, exocentric, and copulative āb (water)-noun nominal compounds in Persian with both right- and left-headed compounds, based on the network model of conceptual blending theory. Given that an emergent meaning is involved in endocentric and copulative compounds, the same as in e...

The current paper offers an analysis of a set of 27 entrenched endocentric, exocentric, and copulative âb (water)-noun nominal compounds in Persian with both right- and left-headed compounds, based on the network model of conceptual blending theory. Given that an emergent meaning is involved in endocentric and copulative compounds, the same as in e...

This collection of case studies is special for several reasons. Firstly, because of the geographical and institutional diversity of the authors, bringing together experiences of teaching under COVID-19 restrictions in the university language classroom from 18 countries and five continents. Secondly, the publication is interesting because of the var...

This paper aims at examining the construction of two word-formation patterns [cheshm-X] and [X-cheshm] (compounds of “eye”) and investigating their semantic variations, the most general schema and their subschemas in Persian based on Construction Morphology approach (Booij, 2010). The method of research is descriptive-analytic in nature and the dat...

Nowadays the main stream in the most fields of linguistics including phonology is minimalism and redundancy removing, which derives from the principle of the economy of language. The advent of under specification theory in the late 19th century can be considered as the beginning of redundancy removing in the domain of phonology. During recent decad...

This paper aims to examine the construction of the word-formation pattern [sar-X] (compounds of the body part “head”) and to investigate its semantic variations, the most general schema and subschemas in Persian both synchronically and Diachronically employing the Construction Morphology approach (Booij, 2010). To this end, a collection of 178 comp...

This study aims at examining the construction of the word-formation pattern of [del-X] (compounds of “heart”) and investigating its semantic variations, the most general schema and subschemas in Persian employing the Construction Morphology approach (Booij, 2010). To this end, a collection of 71 compound words starting with “del” were collected fro...

Coercion is a long-discussed issue in linguistics and its mechanisms have been imaged differently. This article tries to introduce the theoreticians' views about the nature of coercion and analyzes this phenomenon in some morphological and syntactic Persian colloquial data. It is supposed that this analysis will elucidate some points in Persian mor...

The present study, using some morphological Persian constructions, explores Morphological Doubling Theory (Inkelas and Zoll 2005, henceforth MDT) and its essential claim as regards resulting reduplication when the morphology calls twice for a constituent of a given semantic description. In contrast to the previous theories and approaches categorizi...

This article aims to develop an acoustic vowel space in Persian speech. There are several aspects in this survey which make it different from what has been done before. The first is related to the issue of speech material. The need for more natural choice in voice qualities in recent years exhort us not relying on citation form or artificial sound...

Object indexation is a grammatical phenomenon in which a clitic pronoun, co-referential with the free nominal object, appends to the verb. Optionality of indexation in Persian leads us to consider the role of pragmatic and discoursal factors such as definiteness, specificity, and identifiability in its occurence. The present study aimed at investig...

This paper tends to study selectional restrictions on the Persian suffix «-انه». Selectional restrictions which have been dealt with include grammatical, morphological, phonological and semantic constraints and pragmatic restrictions including useful neologism, necessity of labeling and aesthetic constraints. Words derived from the suffix «-انه» ha...

This paper is based on insights gained from “Frame Semantics Theory", and sets out to undertake a metalexicographical analysis of five current Persian monolingual dictionaries. It demonstrates that a frame semantic perspective can be applied in the microstructures of such dictionaries. This research is conducted by using a descriptive-analytic meth...