Conversion in Turkish: An overview
Word Structure, cilt.11, sa.2, ss.148-174, 2018 (Scopus)
- Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
- Cilt numarası: 11 Sayı: 2
- Basım Tarihi: 2018
- Doi Numarası: 10.3366/word.2018.0122
- Dergi Adı: Word Structure
- Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Scopus
- Sayfa Sayıları: ss.148-174
- Anahtar Kelimeler: conversion, toponym, Turkish, zero-affixation
- Açık Arşiv Koleksiyonu: AVESİS Açık Erişim Koleksiyonu
- Boğaziçi Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet
Özet
This paper presents an overview of possible cases of conversion in Turkish. I argue that apparent cases of conversion between nouns and adjectives are cases of syntactic transposition, and apparent cases of conversion between nouns/adjectives and verbs are end products of phonological changes in the history of the language, which resulted in pairs of lexemes that are formally identical synchronically, but not historically. This does not mean that no cases of morphological conversion can be traced in the language. I will present two cases of secondary word-class conversion from derived, inflected and uninflected words to toponyms which might be taken as instances of morphological conversion or derivation by zero-affixation.