turkish phonology and morphology (türkçe ses ve b‹ç‹mb‹lg‹s‹)
turkish phonology and morphology (türkçe ses ve b‹ç‹mb‹lg‹s‹)
turkish phonology and morphology (türkçe ses ve b‹ç‹mb‹lg‹s‹)
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Evidently, the morpheme /-AlA/ has two allomorphs,<br />
[ele] <strong>and</strong> [-ala], which are in complementary distribution.<br />
The former appears in the environment of front vowels,<br />
the latter in the environment of back vowels.<br />
The second morpheme in this problem set is -l(A). It is<br />
a derivational morpheme which is added to nouns to<br />
form <strong>ve</strong>rbs meaning ‘to NOUN’.<br />
gece ‘night’ gecelemek ‘to stay o<strong>ve</strong>rnight’<br />
kese ‘body scrub’ keselemek ‘to scrub (body)’<br />
hece ‘syllable’ hecelemek ‘to spell’<br />
kara ‘black’ karalamak to doodle/to sl<strong>and</strong>er’<br />
yara ‘wound’ yaralamak ‘to wound’<br />
para ‘money’ paralamak ‘to gi<strong>ve</strong> money’<br />
As can be seen abo<strong>ve</strong>, the stem vowels <strong>and</strong> the suffix<br />
vowels agree in backness; therefore /-lA/ has two<br />
allomorphs: [-le] after front vowels <strong>and</strong> [-la] following<br />
back vowels.<br />
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