+lAt- Biçimbirimine İşlevsel Bir Yaklaşım
A Functional Approach to +lAt- Morpheme in Turkish

Summary/Abstract: In this study, it is argued and supported by the evidence that the +lAt morpheme as a suffix whose function is to verbalise nouns directly, should be evaluated separately from +lA-t. The study will focus on whether +lAn, +lAş and +lAt and +lA-n, +lA-ş and +lA-t should be considered in a compound structure or as separate suffixes, and it will be discussed whether CAUSATIVE verbs can derive directl from nouns by means of the suffix +lAt-. The relations between these suffixes will be tried to be explained through the phenomenon of CAUSATIVE / INCHOATIVE verb pairs. The question of why diachronic methods are not an appropriate way to explain the derivational relations between these suffixes will be answered. The study will be based on Martin Haspelmath’s (1993) classification of the derivational relations between the CAUSATIVE / INCHOATIVE pairs.

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