The Morphopragmatics of Attributive Suffixes in Persian
1Introduction The literature review of Persian suffixes show that " i, in, ineh, gan, ganeh, aneh, and iyeh/yeh" are attributive suffixes. Linguistic evidences show that once these suffixes are added to a word, in addition to the central senses of "related to" and "attributed to" they add peripheral sense such as possession, similarity, possibility, obligation, origin, direction, goal, rank, manner, limit, quantity, intermediary, and so on to some words. Such secondary senses are actually related to pragmatics. The way the main senses are related to the pragmatic ones is the subject of study of morphopragmatics which explains the pragmatic roles of words within morphological process and in relation with other words. The aim of the present research is the morphopragmatical study of attribution derivational suffixes in Persian in terms of Jurafsky radial model (1996)