Processing Compound Verbs in Persian: A Psycholinguistic Approach to Complex Predicates

ISBN-13: 9789087282080 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 198 str.

Pouneh Shabani-Jadidi

Opis

This is the first book-length analysis of the way that Persian compound verbs are processed in the mental lexicon. The study of this process offers ways to infer how these verbs are stored, organized, and accessed, drawing on psycho-linguistic theories of polymorphic word processing as well as linguistic theories of complex predicates.

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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