Roots, Heads, or Both? Categorizing Turkish Derivational Affixes*1 Türkçe Yapım Eklerini Sınıflandırmak

OĞUZ E.

Dilbilim Arastirmalari Dergisi, cilt.35, sa.1, ss.1-25, 2024 (Scopus) identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 35 Sayı: 1
  • Basım Tarihi: 2024
  • Doi Numarası: 10.18492/dad.1385137
  • Dergi Adı: Dilbilim Arastirmalari Dergisi
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Scopus, Linguistic Bibliography, MLA - Modern Language Association Database, Directory of Open Access Journals
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.1-25
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: categorization, derivational affixes, heads, roots
  • Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

The categorization of derivational affixes has received well-deserved attention in Distributed Morphology. In addition to single-categorization views that classify derivational affixes as either roots or heads, a recent proposal argues that such units can be both roots and heads. While this categorization has been shown to explain Dutch and English data, whether it applies to different languages has not been extensively investigated. In order to investigate the applicability of this recent proposal to the Turkish language, this study examined Turkish derivational suffixes in terms of their stress, flexibility, selection, and ordering patterns. The results showed that the proposal cannot account for the patterns of derivational suffixes in Turkish.