Ehsan Changizi; Sepideh Abdolkarimi
Abstract
The present research is a diachronic semantic study to explore the meanings of two Persian verbs, namely “andâxt/andâz-” and “borid/bor-”. The meanings ...
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The present research is a diachronic semantic study to explore the meanings of two Persian verbs, namely “andâxt/andâz-” and “borid/bor-”. The meanings of these verbs have been carefully investigated in Old Persian, Middle Persian, the poetry and prose of Islamic era and contemporary Persian with a comparative approach. This diachronic semantic research is necessary to decide about polysemic verbs, homonymic verbs and context-dependent synonymy with regard to etymological clues and historical documentations. Furthermore, the criteria for distinguishing polysemy from homonymy will also be mentioned and finally we will see that as far as these verbs are concerned, homonymy is out of the question. It is equally incorrect to draw on context-dependent synonymy to justify the semantic relation among different meanings of the verbs. Each of these two verbs should be considered polysemic.
