Verb as an event reality: The Persian verb system

Persian language frequently uses compound verbs along with simple verbs as verbal predicates. In addition to ‘compounding’ as a morphological process, ‘metaphorization’ is a semantic change method applied to the verb formation. As a typological property, these two types of verb formation strategies are used in abundance in Persian language. In this study, the essential criteria for the definition of the sentence verb is based on both the ‘argument structure’ and the different possible forms of ‘event structure’ mentioned in the sentence. This is a semantic-based approach and explores formal diversities in order to discover the meanings hidden inside them. In this study at first we look at the definition of the verb and investigate its different forms and then ‘compound’ and ‘fragmented’ verbs are introduced as two forms of the verb in Persian.