Varamin, Pishva Branch, Islamic Azad University, Iran
Formerly, the different linguistic approaches have studied the changes which have happened in the verbal part of Persian compound verbs, while; the study of such changes in Persian compound verbs with the same verbal part on the basis of cognitive morphology proposed by Hamavand, makes the theoretical framework of this research. These compound verbs can be analyzed according to two main theories in cognitive linguistics: categorization theory and conceptual metaphor theory. In this research the introduction of fundamental concepts of cognitive linguistics and more importantly, the explanation of the two mentioned theories come first. Then the author aims at classifying and analyzing the Persian compound verbs with the same verbal part on the basis of proto-type category and periphery categories, and put them on a continuum on the basis of the correspondence between the main semantic features of verbal and non-verbal parts. The conceptual metaphor theory is another theory according to which the Persian compound verbs with the same verbal part are assigned on the continuum, while the movement from one side of continuum to the other side increases the metaphorical extension and decreases the lexical meaning of these Persian compound verbs. In other words, there will be created a kind of correspondence among the two concrete and abstract conceptual domains.
The above abstract is a part of the article which was accepted at The International Conference on Current Issues of Languages, Dialects and Linguistics (WWW.TLLL.IR), 2-3 February 2017, Ahwaz.
