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"The development of the verbal part of compound verbs in language can challenge these simple definitions of grammaticalization and lexicalization which arc considered by some as completely independent and, somehow, reverse processes.
Our evidence from New Persian indicate that light verbs in their development have been subjected to main principles and mechanisms of grammaticalization.
It is evident that light verbs arc productively used to form new compound verbs in Persian.
Keywords: Light verb development, grammaticalization, lexicalization, compound verb, Persian.
In this study, first the four typologies of possessive construction are examined, then the encoding of subtypes of possession are investigated through natural linguistic data gathered from Persian data base of the Institute for Humanities and Cultural Studies.
These universals arc about the relations between predicative possession typologies and deranking/balancing encoding and the split/share parameters.
Keywords: Persian Passive Construction, Cognitive Grammar, Complex Predicates.
In the present study, the predicative possession in modern Persian in functional-typological approach has been examined.
The typology of predicative possession is based on the encoding of the possessor and the possessee in terms of their grammatical function.
Keywords: Ergative Construction, Middle Persian, New Persian, Syntactic change.
In line with the principles of Cognitive Grammar, the passive construction is treated as a symbolic unit which is the result of three basic elements: the non-verbal element, the verbal element 'sodaen', and the prepositional phrase used to encode the agent.
The passive verb in Persian is assumed as a subbranch of Complex Predicates in which the non-verbal element(nominal, adjectival, past participle or a spccial kind of preposition)designates an atemporal relation."