MOTION VERBS IN PERSIAN AND ENGLISH: A FRAMENET-BASED CONTRASTIVE ANALYSIS

The current research aims at exploring and comparing the semantic frames of motion verbs in English Persian. In pursuit this goal, novel Animal farm by G. Orwell (1945) was selected compared with its Persian translation, Qale heyvanat (Atefi, 2010). sentences including were primarily extracted from then a comparison made between each sentence counterpart. Afterwards, obtained FrameNet database. It should be noted that when had an equivalent which could interpreted different way Persian, verb searched for one most reliable to dictionaries—Persian Dictionary (Aryanpur Aryanpur, 2007). We newly frame. When two languages examined, we concluded events expressed through miscellaneous involves frame peculiar it. Likewise, may similar or cross-linguistically case differences, they might pragmatically similar.