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An Investigation into Reduplication and Lexicalization in Persian

Gili, Maryam | 2014

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  1. Type of Document: M.Sc. Thesis
  2. Language: Farsi
  3. Document No: 45586 (31)
  4. University: Sharif University of Technology
  5. Department: Languages and Linguistics Center
  6. Advisor(s): Eslami, Moharram; Khosravizadeh, Parvaneh
  7. Abstract:
  8. This study aims at classifying outputs of Reduplication (Total and Partial Reduplication) in Persian, in order to demonstrate the types and processes which lead to the lexicalization of some reduplicated forms and assign them lexical position in lexicography as individual lexical entries. There are distinct phonological, morphological and semantic evidences behind the lexicalization of some types of reduplicated items in Persian. Approximately about 269 totally reduplicated words and 293 partially reduplicated words have been collected and analyzed according to the said morphological, phonological and semantic considerations. Partial and Total Reduplication process is one of the productive word-formation processes in Persian. From the view point of phonology, changing in sounds of the base is important in lexicalization. Semantically, we consider the semantic feature of the components in reduplicated forms; whether, both components are meaningful or meaningless and first or second component is meaningful. When both components are meaningful, and the meaning of the output is predictable, then the output is not lexicalized. For those that just one component is meaningless and the other is meaningful, it depends on the predictability of the meaning of the output. Of course, it is not always the case that if one component is meaningless, the output will be lexicalize. If both components are meaningful and the meaning of the output is predictable, it won’t be lexicalized. From the morphological view point, any change in the category of the combing elements and the category of the output will lead to lexicalization. This study tries to investigate the types of totally and partially reduplicated forms which are lexicalized, and to explain the reasons behind it. The result of the study can be used in developing language resources for Persian, as in Persian lexicography and also in automatic text processing including machine translation, text to speech and text data mining and etc
  9. Keywords:
  10. Persian Language ; Persian Text Processing ; Reduplication Process ; Partial Reduplication ; Lexicalization ; Lexicography

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