Authors

• Neda Azkia ¹
• Farhad Sasani ²
• Azita Afrashi ³

¹ Simon Frieser University

² Alzahra university

³ Faculty Member of the Institute of Humanities and Cultural Studies

Abstract

      Lexicalization as a Framework for Explaining Non-simple Verbs in Persian     Neda Azkia [1]   Farhad Sasani [2]   Azita Afrashi [3]       Received: 2011/12/26   Accepted: 2013/06/08       Abstract   As the concept of motion is found in all languages, linguists such as Leonard Talmy show that how such a concept might be coded differently in different languages, and how languages could be typologically categorized. Motion might, thus, appear both as a simple or non-simple verb. As Persian verb category, especially non-simple verb, is a challenging topic, the present paper tried to explore Persian motion verbs based on lexicalization pattern theory, in a cognitively semantic framework. It proved that on a continuum of lexicalization extreme to satellite-frame extreme, some non-simple verbs, just like simple verbs, might be found on the lexicalization extreme, and the rest, based on their productivity and their syntactic behavior, are spread around the continuum.     Keywords: Non-simple verb, Motion verb, Persian language, Lexicalization   [1] PhD holder in linguistics, Islamic Azad University, n_azkia@yahoo.com   [2] Associate Prof of linguistics, Alzahra University, fsasani@alzahra.ac.ir   [3] Associate Prof of linguistics, Institute for Humanities and Cultural Studies , .afrashi.ling@gmail.com

Keywords

• Non
• simple verb
• motion verb
• Persian language
• Lexicalization