Compounding with a Polymorphic Deverbaliser in Turkish

Furkan Dikmen; Ömer Demirok

doi:10.18290/rh237111-4s

Published : 2023-07-27

Vol. 71 No. 11sp (2023)

Compounding with a Polymorphic Deverbaliser in Turkish

Furkan Dikmen

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1192-3612

Ömer Demirok

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2536-5247

DOI: https://doi.org/10.18290/rh237111-4s

Abstract

This paper is concerned with compounds headed by nouns built by the deverbaliser -Im in Turkish. Our basic observation is that they polymorphically correspond to compounds such as ‘home-made’ as well as compounds such as ‘cake-baking’. We argue that the theme has a distinguished status in these compounds, suggesting that the base for -Im cannot be a plain event predicate, but has an argument structure. Thus, as we provide a compositional semantics for compounds built by -Im, we also hope to contribute to the debate on whether the base of a deverbal noun may have argument structure or not.

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nominalisation, compounding, affixation height, argument structure

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