Overview

Processing Compound Verbs in Persian is the first monograph investigating how Persian compound verbs are processed in the mental lexicon, through which it can be inferred how they are stored, organized, and accessed. The study examines Persian compound verbs in light of psycholinguistic theories on poly-morphemic word processing as well as linguistic theories of complex predicates.

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Author:   Pouneh Shabani-Jadidi
Publisher:   Leiden University Press
Imprint:   Leiden University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.00cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.286kg
ISBN:  

9789087282080

ISBN 10:   9087282087
Pages:   192
Publication Date:   01 April 2014
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Table of Contents List of Abbreviations List of Figures List of Tables CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION 1.1 The Mental Lexicon 1.2 Goals of the present study 1.3 Book outline CHAPTER 2 COMPLEX AND COMPOUND WORD PROCESSING 2.1 Hypotheses of complex and compound word processing 2.2 Morphologically complex noun processing 2.3 Processing morphologically complex verbs 2.4 Processing of complex and compound words by aphasic patients 2.5 The impact of linguistic and non-linguistic factors on the processing of morphologically complex words CHAPTER 3 EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES 3.1 Experiment 3.2 Experiment 2 3.3 General conclusion CHAPTER 4 COMPOUND VERBS IN PERSIAN 4.1 Syntactic/semantic account in compound verbs in Persian 4.2 An overview of the literature on N-V compound verb constituents CHAPTER 5 GENERAL DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSION 5.1 Contribution of the study to the psycholinguistics field 5.2 Processing of idiomatic expressions 5.3 Contribution of the study to the Persian complex predicate field 5.4 Conclusion APPENDICES REFERENCES

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Solid scholarly research. . . . The significance of the current study lies in the fact that it applies the findings of the existing theories to cutting-edge empirical research. --Anousha Sedighi, Portland State University

Author Information

Dr. Pouneh Shabani-Jadidi is a Lecturer of Persian Language and Linguistics and the Head of Persian Language Program at the Institute of Islamic Studies, McGill University.

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