Document Type : Research

Authors

• Maryam Hakimi ¹
• Maryam Iraji ²
• Aliakbar Khomeijani Farahani ³

¹ PhD of Linguistics, South Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran

² Assistant Professor of Linguistics, Central Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran

³ Associate Professor of Linguistics, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

Abstract

Conceptual classification of words is one of the topics that has long been considered by researchers in the field of conceptology and terminology. The present study was conducted with the aim of conceptual classification of Persian derivative and compound words and for this purpose, 660 derivative and compound words that were extracted from the A Dictionary of Persian Orthography and Spelling (Sadeghi and Zandi-Moghaddam, 2015) by systematic random sampling have been analyzed and examined based on two conceptual classifications presented by Felber (1984) and Weissenhofer (1995). The results of this analysis showed that these two classifications are not able to cover all research data and only part of the data can be classified based on them. Then, in order to eliminate the shortcomings of these two classifications and achieve a comprehensive conceptual system, conceptualization was performed on the data, which resulted in the identification of 54 separate underlying concepts, which was finally presented in the form of a systematic classification model. In this model, all identified concepts are organized into five general groups: 1. Process, which itself is divided into two main categories of action and event; 2. Entity, which itself includes the two major categories of physical entity and abstract entity; 3. Relationship; 4. Status; and 5. Property.

Keywords

• Conceptology
• Semantic Classification
• Conceptual Classification
• Conceptual System
• Lexicography
• Terminology

Main Subjects

• Linguistics and Ancient Languages