Cognitive Study of Compound Adjectives in Hawrami Kurdish of Paveh

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1 . Ph.D. Student, Department of Linguistics and Foreign Languages, Payame Noor University (PNU), Tehran, Iran.

2 Professor in Linguistics, Department of Linguistics and Foreign Languages, Payame Noor University (PNU), Tehran, Iran.

3 Associate Professor in Linguistics, Department of Linguistics and Foreign Languages, Payame Noor University (PNU), Tehran, Iran.

4 Assistant professor in Linguistics, Department of Linguistics and Foreign Languages, Payame Noor University (PNU), Tehran, Iran.

Abstract

In this descriptive-analytic study, firstly, compound adjectives of Hawrami Kurdish of Paveh gathered from Persian-Kurdish Dictionary (Mardukh Ruhani et al., (3 Vols.), 2006), along with 25 others added by one of the authors who is the speaker of Hawrami Kurdish of Paveh. Then, the data were examined based on cognitive linguistics and Hamawand’s (2011) model of cognitive morphology. The semantic relationship between the head and the modifier of these adjectives were analyzed based on three cognitive operations; categorization, configuration and conceptualization. The results indicated that nine out of twelve categories proposed by Hamawand can be seen in Hawrami Kurdish of Paveh (including adjectives in which modifier shows the goal, or place of the head, or doesn't have the feature mentioned by the head, or adjectives whose head shows type, feature, size, activity, tendency, or moving toward the modifier). There are, also, four more categories which are not mentioned in Hamawand’s model but exist in Hawrami Kurdish of Paveh (including adjectives whose modifiers show the quantity, range, feature or resemblance of the head). There are also three inter-word-class- and three intra-word-class-domains and six construals in compound adjectives of Hawrami Kurdish of Paveh.

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