The study of relative clause schema in Persian language with data mining methods

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1 Ph.D Candidate of General Linguistics, Department of Linguistics, Literature and Humanities Faculty, BuAli Sina University, Hamedan, Iran

2 Full Professor of Linguistics, Department of General Linguistics, Literature and Humanities Faculty Bu-Ali Sina University, Hamdan, Iran

Abstract

Relative clause as a complex sentence has always been focused in cognitive linguistics. A relative clause construction (RCC) consists of four main parts: nominal head, main clause (MC), relative clause (RC) and a clause connector "keh". In exemplar theory all tokens of a RCC can be classified in a variety of examples. Exemplar is an individual trace from previous experience in memory. An exemplar-based representation indicates a list of words happening in a certain slot. (Bybee, 2013, p. 58). That is to say, an actual utterance of a RCC always simultaneously instantiates a number of lower-level constitutive constructions and their properties. (Wiechmann, 2015, p.3). Following the study of English RCCs in Wiechmann (2015), the present paper aims to introduce exemplar clusters (closely related to schemas in cognitive grammar) of Persian RCCs. However, this study has focused more on explaining schema occurrence. Furthermore, variables have been chosen based on RCC features in Persian.

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