Light Verbs in Persian Complex Predicates

Persian Light Verb (PLV) is of the chalengable issues in Persian Linguistics. Most of the studies on PLV are on its role in forming Noun Incorporation (NI) as well as Argument Structure. The present study has tried to investigate PLV in Persian complex predicates in terms of bleechness of the lexical meaning. In the study, it has been argued that the light verbs have been bleached distinctively in two vertical and horizontal continuemes. In horizontal continuem light verbs haven compared with each other, from the least to the most bleeched one, like xandan(to read), xordan(to eat), …, zadan(to hit) and kardan t(to do). In vertical contiuem a specific Light verb have been investigated in relation to the lexical elements, noun or adjective, can be merged withto like kotak zadan(to hit), harf zadan(to talk), telephone zadan (to call, It has been also argued that there is a direct relationship between lexicality and specifity. More specific light verbs are more lexical ones.
In this study a kite shape design has been proposed to show bleechness of PLV in two dimensions.