The Investigation of Instrumental Compounds in Persian: A Cognitive Morphology Approach

Regarding the productivity of compounding as an active word formation process in Persian, which is considered as a salient typological property, and on the other hand, an outstanding part of many Persian words are dedicated to these items. Therefore, in the present research the authors attempt to study one kind of these forms called the instrumental compounds in Persian, using the achievements of cognitive morphology such as categorization theory, conceptualization and configuration which are theoretical fundamentals of this approach developed by Hamawand (2011). Eventually, the authors attempt to introduce the cognitive potentials contributing to the formation and usage of these forms. Moreover, they examine the semantic constraints, which are dominant on such compounds.