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Volume 12 : 10 October 2012
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Assessing Lexical Collocations in the Masnavi Manavi by Maulana

Mohammad Reza Pahlavannezhad, Ph.D.
Shima Ebrahimi, M.A.

Abstract

In different languages, there is a sense relation between lexicons which makes syntagmatic and paradigmatic relations among linguistic structures. One of the sense relations is collocational relation which is based on a relevance and sequence of two or more vocabularies whose co-occurrence can be predicted. Lexical collocations are of considerable importance in any language and in close association with a community’s literature, attitudes and customs. Any poet’s innovative and unique use of lexical collocations in syntagmatic axis makes his work semantically relevant, graceful, and different from other poets’ works.

Due to the fact that one of the most significant characteristics of Maulana Jalalu-D-Din Muhammad I Balkhi’s poems, the present study seeks to investigate and categorize the existing collocations in his Masnavi Manavi according to semantic and corresponding collocations, synonymous collocations, antonymous collocations, situational collocations, historical and Quranic collocations.

Keywords: syntagmatic relations, collocation, semantic relevance, Quranic collocation, syntagmatic axis, paradigmatic axis

1. Introduction

The important issue in collocations is how the arrangement and juxtaposition of vocabularies which commonly co-occur is possible and which words can be collocated with each other. Being able to recognize which words can be linked is a great help both with understanding and translating a text. By and large, it can be alleged that any vocabulary can be collocated with one or more vocabularies, and this characteristic makes the speakers of a language capable of structuring statements or larger units in a text. Collocations can be studies from different point of views such as theoretical, descriptive and applied linguistics. Nowadays, researchers’ studies should be more extensive and accurate since collocations’ horizons have been hugely broadened to the other spheres of study such as mathematical linguistics, corpus-based linguistics, lexicography, second language acquisition, natural language production and processing, and especial translation studies. It can be a reasonable indicative of collocations’ importance in Persian Language.

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Mohammad Reza Pahlavannezhad, Ph.D.
Linguistics Department
Ferdowsi University of Mashhad
PO Box 91779-48974, Park Square
Mashhad, Iran
Pahlavan@um.ac.ir

Shima Ebrahimi, M.A. (corresponding author)
Linguistics Department, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad
PO Box 91779-48974, Park Square
Mashhad, Iran
shima.ebrahimi@yahoo.com
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