Niloufar Family

List of John Benjamins publications for which Niloufar Family plays a role.

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Family, Niloufar 2008 Mapping semantic spaces: A constructionist account of the "light verb" xordæn 'eat' in Persian From Polysemy to Semantic Change: Towards a typology of lexical semantic associations, Vanhove, Martine (ed.), pp. 139–161 | Article
Within the framework of Construction Grammar, the author develops an analytical tool to map semantic regularities in semantic spaces. This is illustrated with the study of the semantic spaces of the Persian “light verb”xordæn “to eat”. The light verb’s semantic space is populated by “notional… read more