A quantitative study of some semantic properties in Persian

The current study endeavored to explore the relationship between polytextuality and polysemy on the one hand and polytextuality and synonymy on the other. To this end, 5000 sentences from five text types including literary, religious, press,
scientific and cultural were selected from a Persian corpus after which all the common nouns were extracted for analysis. The results revealed that there was small correlation found among polytextuality, polysemy and synonymy. The higher incidence of polytextuality is not associated with a higher degree of polysemy or synonymy. The text type did not make a difference with regard to the given variables. The results of the study should be replicated using a larger corpus for substantiation purposes.