Processing Compound Verbs in Persian is the first monograph investigating how Persian compound verbs are processed in the mental lexicon, through which it can be inferred how they are stored, organized, and accessed. The study examines Persian compound verbs in light of psycholinguistic theories on poly-morphemic word processing as well as linguistic theories of complex predicates.

Dr. Pouneh Shabani-Jadidi is a Lecturer of Persian Language and Linguistics and the Head of Persian Language Program at the Institute of Islamic Studies, McGill University.

Table of Contents
List of Abbreviations
List of Figures
List of Tables
CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION
1.1 The Mental Lexicon
1.2 Goals of the present study
1.3 Book outline
CHAPTER 2 COMPLEX AND COMPOUND WORD PROCESSING
2.1 Hypotheses of complex and compound word processing
2.2 Morphologically complex noun processing
2.3 Processing morphologically complex verbs
2.4 Processing of complex and compound words by aphasic patients
2.5 The impact of linguistic and non-linguistic factors on the processing of morphologically complex words
CHAPTER 3 EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES
3.1 Experiment
3.2 Experiment 2
3.3 General conclusion
CHAPTER 4 COMPOUND VERBS IN PERSIAN
4.1 Syntactic/semantic account in compound verbs in Persian
4.2 An overview of the literature on N-V compound verb constituents
CHAPTER 5 GENERAL DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSION
5.1 Contribution of the study to the psycholinguistics field
5.2 Processing of idiomatic expressions
5.3 Contribution of the study to the Persian complex predicate field
5.4 Conclusion
APPENDICES
REFERENCES