The Study of the Irreversible Binominals in Persian: A Cognitive Morphology Approach

The purpose of this research is initially to investigate and delineate the formation process of the irreversible binominals in Persian, as an active word formation process in this language, which has constantly been regarded from different approaches by Iranian and foreign linguists, Using the achievements of cognitive linguistics. It's worth mentioning here that the study of the chosen investigated compounds is based on the three theories of categorization, configuration and conceptualization which are theoretical fundamentals of cognitive morphology provided by Hamawand (2011). Moreover, it examines the dominant constraints on such compounds.