TY - JOUR JF - mdrsjrns JO - LRR VL - 7 IS - 3 PY - 2016 Y1 - 2016/7/01 TI - A cognitive study of light verb polysemy: The case of ZADAN TT - بررسی چندمعنایی فعل سبک «زدن» از دیدگاه شناختی N2 - During recent decades, Persian complex predicates have been described by many grammarians and linguists with different approaches to their syntax, morphology, and, in less extent, to their semantics. Despite the extensive literature about the subject, cognitive semantic analysis of these predicates has not yet been the matter of analysis. This paper aims at examining the polysemous feature of the light verb zadan based on cognitive lexical semantics. It seeks to show that this feature of the light verb zadan based on the meanings of its corresponding heavy verb is a systematic phenomenon and cognitive concepts such as categorization, radial category, image schemas and conceptual metaphor play a major role in the formation of different meanings of this linguistic element in the form of a radial category. As well, the meaning of light verb is a determining factor in collocation between light verb and preverbal elements in light verb constructions. SP - 129 EP - 148 AU - Karimi-Doostan, Gholamhossein AU - roohi bygi, zahra AD - Ph.D. student in linguistics, Tehran University, Tehran, Iran KW - Light Verb KW - polysemy KW - cognitive lexical semantics KW - radial category UR - http://lrr.modares.ac.ir/article-14-9502-en.html ER -