A Semantic Analysis of Compound Verbs with kærdæn light verb based on Construction Morphology Theory

The light verb of "kӕrdӕn" has the most participation in the production of Persian compound verbs due to the fact that it can be empty of meaning more than other Persian light verbs in the process of lightenization and moves away from its meaning by combining with various words with different meanings and parts of speech to make various compound verbs. Therefore, compound verbs in conjunction with "kӕrdӕn" light verb have formed the largest share of all compound verbs in Persian. The present study aims at how Persian compound verbs with “kærdæn” light verb are formed, and identifying and analyzing the polysemy between them based on Construction Morphology (Booij, 2010a&b). To this end, the authors have used the concepts of Construction Morphology such as structural schema and sub-schema to show the polysemy in meanings in these compound verbs at the abstract level of schema. The data of this study, which includes a corpus containing 3326 numbers of compound verbs with “kærdæn” light verb, are gathered from Zanso dictionary (Keshani, 1994), Sokhan (2002), syntactic valency lexicon for Persian verbs corpus (Moloudi, Kouhestani and Rasouli, 2011), and Persian Calligraphy Spelling Dictionary (Sadeghi and Zandi Moghaddam, 2016). Findings show that in compound verbs with “kærdæn” light verb, we are faced with a kind of polysemy that can be explainable not at the level of concrete words, but at the abstract level of structural schemas. Also, a high-order structural scheme that is at a high level of abstraction, and below it there are more objective structural sub-schemas with verb formation patterns. They show the compound in different groups.