Document Type : Original Article
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MA in General Linguistics, Department of Linguistics and Foreign Languages, Payame Noor University (PNU), Tehran, Iran.
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Professor, Department of Linguistics and Foreign Languages, Payame Noor University (PNU), Tehran, Iran
Abstract
This descriptive-analytical research examines sense relations between the lexemes of the Lari language, the continuation of the Middle Persian and one of the endangered Iranian languages spoken in Lar, Fars province, to determine its semantic network, for the first time, in the framework of lexical semantics. To do this, 2500 words (the research data), marked by “L” (Lary) by Eghtedari (1992), were extracted from among 5000 original words he had gathered and classified into different semantic fields. Then, the sense relations existing between them were identified, a plan was presented for each of the relations in the semantic network, and the number of words participating in each relation and their percentages were determined. The results revealed that different sense relations, including hyponymy, synonymy, homonymy, homograhy, polysemy, opposition and semantic contrast, meronomy, member-collection relation and portion-mass relation, were present in Lari semantic network, while homophony was absent. This indicates Lari’s less ambiguity compared to the Standard Persian. From among these relations, hyponymy (%15.28) and semantic contrast (%0.8) had the highest and the lowest frequencies, repectively. The results also indicate that Lari semantic network is ideocyncritic and its biggest part has a hierarchical order while it is heterogeneous in the rest parts.
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