Word-Forming Process in Azeri Turkish Language

Subject Areas : All areas of language and translation

Morvarid Jaza'ei ¹ , Mohammadreza Oroji ² , Behzad Rahbar ³ , Sakineh Jaferi ⁴

1 - Ph.D. Student, Department of Linguistics, Islamic Azad University, Zanjan, Iran
2 - Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics, Islamic Azad University, Zanjan, Iran
3 - Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics, Allameh Tabataba'i University, Tehran, Iran
4 - Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics, Islamic Azad University, Zanjan, Iran

Received: 2021-01-13 Accepted : 2021-01-13 Published : 2020-10-01

Keywords: Morphology, word-formation, Azeri Turkish, Compounding,

Abstract :

The subject intended to study the general methods of natural word-forming in Azeri Turkish language. This study aimed to reach this purpose by analyzing the construction of compound Azeri Turkish words. Same’ei (2016) did a comprehensive study on word-forming process in Farsi, which was the inspiration source of this study for Azeri Turkish language word-forming. Numerous scholars had done various studies about this issue in different languages; however, Same’ei’s (2016) point of view and his application of variables like 'x' and 'y' were really attractive and considerable although absence of such study was quite visible to the Turkish language. Accordingly, this study considered 'x's and 'y's to represent the components of the compound words which were collected from reliable Turkish bilingual or monolingual dictionaries, ongoing dialogues, and grammatical sentences. Different pat- terns were introduced to show the structures of the recognized compound words. The compound words were assessed by the process, and also were contrasted considering their syntactical chain and have been analyzed by analogy of the words, as Same'ei (2016) did. Accordingly, the structural dif- ferences between the Azeri Turkish and Farsi languages were considered, and words structure were successfully analyzed with their components via the desired variables.

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