The Polysemic Study of the Light Verb "dɑdæn" (to give) from Frame Semantics and Construction Morphology Perspective

In this research, semantic frames and construction schemes of compound verbs with "dɑdæn" (to give) light verb has been studied to consider their polysemy. The data includes 382 compound verbs with "dɑdæn" as a light verb, collected from the sources such as Zansu Dictionary (Keshani, 1993), Farhang-e Bozorg-e Sokhan (Anvari, 2002), Syntactic Valency Lexicon for Persian Verbs (Rasooli et al., 2011), and Persian Orthographic Dictionary (Sadeghi and Zendi Moghadam, 2015). The semantic categorization of data is based on Farhang-e Bozorg-e Sokhan (Anvari, 2002). The semantic frames included syntactic valency, grammatical structure, and grammatical functions related to sentences with compound verbs in each semantic category, while the constructional schemas provided templates for making new compound verbs. The findings indicated that by using concepts presented in Frame Semantics (Fillmore, 1982) and Constructional Morphology (Booij, 2010a, 2010b, 2018), the relationship between constructional schemas and semantic frames can be established, and the existing polysemy among compound verbs with the light verb "dɑdæn" can be identified and explained. This analysis leads to a hierarchical and network-like structure of constructional schemes, providing a clear picture of abstract polysemy at the level of construction patterns.