TÜRKÇEDE BİLEŞİK EKİ VE TÜRETİMSEL DİZİL
TURKISH COMPOUND MARKER AND THE DERIVATIONAL PARADIGM

Summary/Abstract: This study deals with the productive N-N-(s)I(n) compounds in Turkish (so-called indefinite noun phrases, traditionally) within a Process-Morphology approach (cf. Zwicky, 1986; Aronoff, 1994; Pounder, 2000), and presents a structural and a semantic analysis, which includes a new function for the -(s)I(n) suffixation in the compounds. Assigning a derivational and barely morphological function to the -(s)I(n) in compounds, which is stem formation, the study proposes a derivational paradigm where -(s)I(n) is involved in a paradigmatic relation with a group of derivational suffixes. Importantly, the paradigm structure explains not only the existence but also the absence of the compound marker in contexts where it would be expected to occur semantically. Theoretically, the study (i) assumes that the morphology (and morphological operations) is not manipulated by either the syntax or the lexicon, but an autonomous subsystem of the grammar, (ii) supports the Separationism Hypothesis (Beard, 1995) with Turkish data showing that form and meaning are separate levels, as is highlighted in other process approaches exploring other languages. The study also offers an insight into the descriptive and theoretical status of the inputs of morphological operations, i.e. stems, which gain prominence both in derivational and inflectional morphology.

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