A corpus-based investigation of near-synonymy of ‘‘bozorg, vasiʔ and pahnâvar’’ size adjectives and their inflectional forms according to behavioral profile approach

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1 Associate Professor of Linguistics, University of Shiraz, Shiraz, Iran.

2 PhD student of Linguistics, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran

3 Assistant Professor of Linguistics, University of Shiraz, Shiraz, Iran.

Abstract

Studies have shown that in Persian, no significant research has been done on size adjectives. In this paper, near-synonymy relationship of ‘‘vasiʔ, pahnâvar, bozorg’’ size adjectives and their inflectional forms have been studied according to Behavioral Profile approach of Divjack and Gries (2006) and the data of Hamshahri 2 corpus (Alahmad and et.al, 2009). In this research, initially all lexical and inflectional forms of size adjectives were identified and then evaluated according to morphological, syntactic and semantic ID-tags. The results indicated that based on hierarchical analysis, the groups of “vasiʔtarin, bozorgtarin”, “vasiʔ, bozorg’’, “pahnâvartar, bozorgtar’’, “vasiʔtari, bozorgtari’’, “vasiʔi, bozorgi’’ have near-synonymy relationship with each other. In addition, there is a similar distribution between the members of the group of “pahnâvar, pahnâvartarin” due to the existence of identical bases. Also, there is a near-synonymy relationship between the lexical forms of “pahnâvari” with “vasiʔi, bozorgi” and “vasiʔtar” with “pahnâvartar, bozorgtar”.

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