Roots, Heads, or Both? Categorizing Turkish Derivational Affixes

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ID20495387
AuthorsEnis Oğuz (0000-0001-5819-4926, Middle East Technical University, corresponding author)
Year2024
Volume35
Issue1
Pages1-25
Publication date2024-06-30
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueDilbilim Araştırmaları Dergisi (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1300-8552 • E-ISSN: 2587-0939
PublisherJournal of Linguistics Research (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.18492/dad.1385137
OpenAlexW4400144261
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited19

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

Categorization · Linguistics · Natural language processing · Statistics · Turkish · Computer Science · Lexicography and Language Studies · Mathematics · Natural Language Processing Techniques · Philosophy · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation · Artificial Intelligence

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