Adel Rafiei
List of John Benjamins publications in which Adel Rafiei is involved.
Articles
2022 Modelling polysemy and categorial ambiguity in a constructional family: The case of agentive compounds in Persian Constructions and Frames 14:2, pp. 262–300 | Article
In this paper we analyse a family of compound constructions in Persian that show two interesting properties: (1) they split into two semantic patterns, human agent noun and instrument noun, and (2) they display categorial ambiguity between noun and adjective. The compounds in question, which are… read more
2022 Conceptual blending in entrenched Persian noun-noun nominal compounds: The case of āb -noun compounds Cognitive Linguistic Studies 9:2, pp. 297–322 | Article
The current paper offers an analysis of a set of 27 entrenched endocentric, exocentric, and copulative āb (water)-noun nominal compounds in Persian with both right- and left-headed compounds, based on the network model of conceptual blending theory. Given that an emergent meaning is involved in… read more