A New Insight into Persian Deverbal Compound Nouns: An Exoskeletal Approach

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1 University of Sistan and Baluchestan

2 Ferdowsi University of Mashhad

Abstract

In Persian, there is little research on the analysis of deverbal compound nouns (DCNs) with a syntactic approach. The present study aims to provide an exoskeletal analysis of the structure of Persian DCNs based on Borer’s (2013) exoskeleton model. In this approach, words do not have any specific lexical category and their exact category is determined by the syntactic context they occur. Borer regards DCNs to lack any argument structure. Also, according to her, all DCNs are of the result type and head final. This research was conducted using a descriptive-analytical method and its data was collected from standard Persian written sources. Research results show that Persian, in addition to head final result DCNs, being in line with Borer’s (2013) assumptions, has head initial result DCNs and DCNs with argument structure as well. Subsequently, as to Persian data, a new syntactic structure is suggested by authors based on the main concepts of exoskeletal model In this classification, Persian DCNs have two different structures, namely [N-V]v CN[v]]N and [Ndev-N]. Similarly, Persian DCNs with argument structure are divided into active and passive DCNs.

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Journal of Iranian Dialects & Linguistics
Volume 8, Issue 2
March 2024
Pages 115-148

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  • Receive Date: 24 July 2023
  • Revise Date: 30 November 2023
  • Accept Date: 13 December 2023

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