چکیده:
Some studies conducted on compound predicates suggest that light verbs have semantically lost their color and lack sufficient semantic capacity to undertake the role of an independent predicate (Jespersen, 1988; Mester & Grimshaw, 1984; Cattell, 1965). In this writing, while accepting the incompleteness of the semantic content of light verbs, we address the issue that such a claim has led to ignoring the semantic relationship between the light verb and its corresponding main verb. The article's claim is that light verbs are completely systematic in preserving the schematic features of the causative, being related to the corresponding main verb; however, the conceptual domain in which the causative construction is applied shifts from a physical domain to an abstract psychological domain. In fact, the belief is that although light verbs do not have completely predictable meanings, their semantic contribution is systematic and transparent to a certain extent. The present study, focusing on two light verbs 'kardan' (to do/make) and 'dashtan' (to have), attempts to reveal this systematicity as much as possible.
خلاصه ماشینی:
PhD Student, Department of Linguistics, University of Isfahan, Isfahan, Iran Received: 2011/08/23 Accepted: 2011/12/31 Abstract Some studies conducted on compound predicates indicate that light verbs have become semantically bleached and lack sufficient semantic capacity to assume the role of an independent predicate (Jespersen, 1965; Cattell, 1984; Mester & Grimshaw, 1988).
Some previous studies in the field of constructions containing light verbs indicate that these verbs lack sufficient semantic content to assume the role of a predicate (Jespersen, 1965; Cattell, 1984; Mester & Grimshaw, 1988).
Karimi Doostan introduces constructions containing light verbs as a class of compound predicates consisting of a gerund14 and a light verb, which appear in clauses with different numbers and types of syntactic topics and, consequently, create transitive, unaccusative15, and non-object16 structures.
In any case, the present study is considered the first attempt to examine two Persian light verbs, "kardan" (to do/make) and "dashtan" (to have), based on the force theory in the field of cognitive linguistics.
Therefore, according to Karimidoostan (2008: 2), although Persian light verbs lack a specific thematic structure, their lexical conceptual structure49 in the sense of Jackendoff50 (1987), Hill and Kaiser (1986), and Rappaport and Levin51 (1998), still possesses aspectual features that can manifest as an event structure52 (Pustejovsky, 1991; Vikner & Grimshaw, 1993; Grimshaw, 1990; Tenny, 1994).
Thus, the semantic content of the original verb is preserved in terms of aspect and action type within the complex predicate containing the light verb, and this retention occurs through the alignment of the motive force schema.
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