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Golfam A, Mohyodin Qomshei G R. The Iconicity of Reduplicative Constructions in Persian: Semantic Types. LRR 2012; 3 (1) :153-172
URL: http://lrr.modares.ac.ir/article-14-6750-en.html
URL: http://lrr.modares.ac.ir/article-14-6750-en.html
1- Assistant Professor, Linguistics Department, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran
2- Faculty Member of Daneshnamenegary Foundation, Tehran, Iran
2- Faculty Member of Daneshnamenegary Foundation, Tehran, Iran
Abstract: (6040 Views)
In this research, the semantic properties of Persian reduplicative constructions were studied in the framworks of “Iconicity Theory”, in general, and the quantity principle in particular.
Researches on reduplicative constructions in most languages have reveraled the connection of these constructions to such meanings as augmentation, increased quantity, internsification, continuation, repetition, completion, and distribution. The aim of this research was to show the connection of Persian reduplicative constructions to the aforementioned meanings within the framworks of “Iconicity Theory”, the principle of quantity, and the revised version of Regier's model (1998).
The extensive research on form-meaning correlation in Persian causative constructions seminated in the development of a semantic classification of Persian reduplicative constructions (The attached semantic types lists 1-5).
Keywords: Reduplicative constructions, Iconicity, Quantity principle, Complexity principle, Semantic extension, Syntactic repetition, reduplication
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