페르시아어 이동동사 구문의 통사·의미론적 연구

A Syntactic and Semantic Approach to Persian Locomotion Verb Constructions: Based on Generative Lexicon

This paper analyzes Persian locomotion verb constructions by scrutinizing the internal structure of the verbs and their arguments. Firstly, I classified the verbs which form the locomotion construction into two groups ─ one is pure locomotion verbs, which themselves contain the meaning of location change, the other is activity verbs, which can have the same meaning when they take a specific argument. The location-related arguments are path and goal arguments. Goal is different from path in that the complement it selects is the terminal goal that the moving object should reach. Moreover, the “head” of the event in locomotion verbs can affect the overt characteristics of the verb constructions. Thus, the selection of arguments and time adverbials differs according to the head. One interesting fact about Persian locomotion verb constructions is that even activity verbs can express location change when they select specific argument. In other words, the aspectual class is shifted based on the existence of the kinds of arguments. In this paper, by accepting Pustejovsky (1995)'s generative lexicon theory, I have tried to represent the distinct characteristics of each construction.