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Are the Words of Reinforcement (in Turkish) Adjective – Compounds or Reduplications?

Summary/Abstract: This study focuses on the spellings, types and characteristics of emphatic (partial)reduplication words such as ‘very straight’ (dümdüz), ‘very green’ (yemyeşil) ‘dead ripe’ (opolgun),‘pitch black’ (simsiyah), ‘entirely’ (büsbütün) and ‘hard as a rock’ (kaskatı) in Turkish. This study, investigating whether emphatic (partial) reduplications can be categorized as reduplication, also examines whether these words can separately be written like ‘düm düz’ (dümdüz-very straight), ‘büsbütün’ (büsbütün-entirely) and ‘op olgun’ (opolgun-dead ripe) This study focuses on the spellings, types and characteristics of emphatic (partial) reduplication words such as ‘very straight’ (dümdüz), ‘very green’ (yemyeşil) ‘dead ripe’ (opolgun), ‘pitch black’ (simsiyah), ‘entirely’ (büsbütün) and ‘hard as a rock’ (kaskatı) in Turkish. This study, investigating whether emphatic (partial) reduplications can be categorized as reduplication, also examines whether these words can separately be written like ‘düm düz’ (dümdüz-very straight), ‘büs bütün’ (büsbütün-entirely) and ‘op olgun’ (opolgun-dead ripe)

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