A Construction Grammar Approach to Possessive Ezafe Constructions in Persian Language

Cognitive Linguistics studies language as a part of cognition, therefore many researchers in the fields of Linguistics, Cognitive Science, Neuro-linguistics, and the like are interested in. Construction Grammar is one of the frameworks derived from Cognitive Linguistics which selects the cognition as the basis of its analysis. Despite of other previous linguistics grammars, Construction Grammar has provided a comprehensive analysis framework for all linguistic data including generalizations and exceptions, therefore it is regarded as a tool for comprehensive and precise study of language. Accordingly, we have taken this approach as the analysis framework of the present study. This study aims at exploring Possessive Ezafe constructions in Persian Language from a Construction Grammar perspective. According to the results, Possessive constructions are classified into three classes including possession, addition and attribution constructions. It has also been showed that the possessive constructions are the most frequent constructions among Ezafe constructions in Persian Language.