Bałkańskie adaptacje tureckiego sufiksu -çi / -ci
Balkan Derivatives with the Borrowed Turkish Suffix -çi / -ci

Summary/Abstract: In the paper we reflect on which of the allomorphs of a suffix should be considered its basic form (and on what grounds). This problem requires morphonological analysis. We will illustrate this with the example of Balkan derivatives with the borrowed Turkish suffix -çi / -ci. This agentive suffix is extremely productive in Turkish so it is not surprising that this very suffix has settled well in the Balkan languages. In most of them, like in Turkish, it assumes the forms [-ʧi/-ʧija] or [-ʤi/-ʤija]. Which of these forms should be regarded as the primary one?

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