Semantic Analysis of Lori Mamasani Verbs based on Frame Semantics Theory

Frame Semantics was first proposed by Charles Fillmore (1982). Frame Semantics states that word meaning is constructed within a system of knowledge which is deeply rooted in the socio-cultural experiences of humans. In this theory, the conception of 'Frame' is deemed to be an approach towards semantic analysis of natural languages. "Verbs" as the most important construction of the languages are present in most of the states and occurrence of the events and play an important role in semantic change. The aim of this study is evaluating the efficiency of Frame Semantics in Lori Mamasani and providing the semantic frames of certain verbs of this dialect. The data in this study consists of 32 verbs out of 128 verbs collected from Lori Mamasani which were analyzed through descriptive-analytical approach. Analyzing the semantic frames of these verbs, our findings suggest that there are significant differences between the semantic frames of these verbs with their corresponding verbs in standard Persian. We shall argue that these differences originate from social and individual experiences of societies. These verbs, in their utility range, have more meaning inferences and more concepts compared to standard Persian. In other words, they have undergone semantic variation and have lost their meaning components in standard Persian over time.