Language Studies, Institute for Humanities and Cultural Studies (IHCS) Biannual Journal, Vol. 13, No. 1, Spring and Summer 2022, 183-218 Applying Fillmore’s Cognitive approach to determine Semantic Frames of Persian verbs: A case study of verb “šodan”(to become) Leila Rahmati Nejad * , S. Mostafa Assi ** Ali Reza Gholi Famian *** , Masood Ghayoomi **** Abstract Fillmore's “Frame theory” (1982) suggests a major principle in Cognitive Semantics that believes the meanings of words are perceived within a system of knowledge arising from the human's cultural experience. It maintains that “Semantic Frames” display sections of an event used for connecting a group of words to a set of meanings. Verbs are present as the most important element in most of the situations of an event and play significant role in the interpretation of the meaning. The purpose of this study is to present a quantitative and corpus-based analysis in order to recognize the semantic frames of “∫ odæn” (to become) in Persian within the framework of this theory. Thus, 14 semantic frames were recognized using encyclopedias, Persian contemporary corpora and FrameNet. Then, the concept of * Ph.D. Candidate of General Linguistics, Islamic Azad University, Qom branch, rahmatinejadl@gmail.com ** The Professor of Linguistics, Institute for Humanities and Cultural Studies, (Corresponding Author) s_m_assi@ihcs.ac.ir *** The Associate Professor of Linguistics, Institute for Humanities and Cultural Studies, famianarg@gmail.com **** The Assistant Professor of Linguistics, Institute for Humanities and Cultural Studies, m.ghayoomi@ihcs.ac.ir Date received: 22/01/2022, Date of acceptance: 16/04/2022 Copyright © 2018, This is an Open Access article. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ or send a letter to Creative Commons, PO Box 1866, Mountain View, CA 94042, USA.