Purmohammad, Mehdi; Vorwerg, Constanze; Abutalebi, Jubin (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-03-09)
This paper investigates the production of Persian–English bilingual compound verbs (BCVs) of the type [VERB+VERB]. In this type of code-switched structure, a lexical verb from the donor language English is combined with a light verb from the native language Persian. We tested the hypothesis that in Persian–English BCVs English verbs occupy the nominal slots of monolingual Persian complex predicates ...