Characteristics of Pesian Compound Verbs and Their Classifi cation on the Basis of Nominal Part

Abstract

The present work revises the ultimately important and not thoroughly studied issue, related to the origin and nature of Persian compound verbs. In this regard, a hypothesis is stated concerning the reason of appearance of this large number of verbs – the outcome of an extremely productive non-morphological method of word formation, which is assumed to be the search of ways for incorporating the great number of Arabic loanwords entered the Persian language after the 7th century A.D. into its verbal system. In result of the research made it became clear that in its nature the compound verb is a noun-verb combination which non-morphological method of formation is described as lexical-syntactical. In order this complicated nature of Persian compound verbs to be revealed the application of Chomsky’s X-bar theory has had a significant contribution. For the complete presentation of compound verbs in Modern Persian language their general phonological and structural-grammatical properties have also been comprised. A classification of this type of verbs on the basis of their nominal part which is the semantic kernel and common meaning-bearer of the whole noun-verb combination is also included and this typological analysis is of great importance for understanding their semantic nature and foreseeing their common meaning.

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