Processing Compound Verbs in Persian

Dr. Pouneh Shabani-Jadidi is a Lecturer of Persian Language and Linguistics and the Head of Persian Language Program at the Institute of Islamic Studies, McGill University.

• Table of Contents List of Abbreviations List of Figures List of Tables CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION 1.1 The Mental Lexicon 1.2 Goals of the present study 1.3 Book outline CHAPTER 2 COMPLEX AND COMPOUND WORD PROCESSING 2.1 Hypotheses of complex and compound word processing 2.2 Morphologically complex noun processing 2.3 Processing morphologically complex verbs 2.4 Processing of complex and compound words by aphasic patients 2.5 The impact of linguistic and non-linguistic factors on the processing of morphologically complex words CHAPTER 3 EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES 3.1 Experiment 3.2 Experiment 2 3.3 General conclusion CHAPTER 4 COMPOUND VERBS IN PERSIAN 4.1 Syntactic/semantic account in compound verbs in Persian 4.2 An overview of the literature on N-V compound verb constituents CHAPTER 5 GENERAL DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSION 5.1 Contribution of the study to the psycholinguistics field 5.2 Processing of idiomatic expressions 5.3 Contribution of the study to the Persian complex predicate field 5.4 Conclusion APPENDICES REFERENCES