Ezafe Constructions in Persian Language from Goldberg's Construction Grammar Perspective

Goldberg’s Construction Grammar is a cognitive linguistics approach which has considered ‘Constructions’ as the basic units of language. The present study aimed to study Ezafe Constructions in Persian language from Goldberg’s Construction Grammar perspective. Therefore, this approach is regarded as the analysis framework of the study. A corpus of 3000 Ezafe constructions collected from 10 Jam-e-Jam magazines, have been selected to be analyzed. According to the results, Ezafe constructions are classified into three general classes namely possessive (including possession, addition and attribution), descriptive and relative. “Relation” is considered as the basic sense of Ezafe Constructions. Furthermore, it has been shown that the possessive constructions are the most frequent Ezafe constructions, and descriptive and relative constructions are respectively less frequent.