The Classification of Manner Verbs of Motion in Persian [In English]

Taking the theory of motion event introduced by Talmy (۲۰۰۰a&b) into account as well as adopting the classification of motion verbs of English proposed by Ibaretxe-Antunano (۲۰۰۶), approved by Ozcaliskan (۲۰۰۴) and Slobin (۲۰۰۰), all of which cited in Cifuentes Ferez (۲۰۰۷), we made an attempt to examine motion verbs of Persian to see whether the classification can justify the motion verbs in the language. In pursuit of this goal, we primarily checked what the aforementioned scholars proposed and then tried to find the motion verbs. As the aforesaid proposal includes manner verbs, we made a corpus of ۱۰۰ manner verbs in Persian by extracting them from multiple electronic sources such as Persian articles in which motion verbs have been categorized as well as Persian corpora. Having collected the data and semantically investigating them, we put each verb into its relevant class. Ultimately, such a conclusion was drawn that there are ۱۶ groups of manner verbs in Persian for two of which Manner is expressed through satellites, whereas for ۱۳ others, it is stated by verb and for ۱ of them, Manner is expressed by a complex predicate the semantic nature of which is an indication of Manner along with direction and speed, that is to say Vehicle crash, not specified among the proposed classification.

Keywords:

Persian , motion verbs , motion event , manner , Classification