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Table showing suffix allomorphy in elicited morphological categories: | ||||
| Nominals | nominative ("citation") | -0 | |||
| accusative | -(y)I | ||||
| professional | -CI | ||||
| possessive | -(I)m | ||||
| predicative | -(y)Im | ||||
| Verbs | long infinitive ("citation") | -mEk | |||
| aorist | -Er | ||||
| causative | -t, -DIr | ||||
| "I" ranges over the four high vowels of Turkish
(in our phonemic transcription system, [i~i@~u~u@]).
"C" ranges over the voiced and voiceless affricates, [c~c@]. "E" ranges
over the two nonround nonhigh vowels [e~a]. "D" ranges over the voiced
and voiceless coronal plosives, [d~t]. Turkish has progressive vowel harmony
and voicing assimilation rules governing these alternations. The parenthesized
glides surface when the stem ends in a vowel.
Example: kitap, meaning 'book', was elicited in
the nominative as kitap, in the accusative as kitabi@, in
the professional as kitapc@i@ 'bookseller', and in the predicative
as kitabi@m 'I am a book'. (Note the pragmatic oddness of the last
form; our consultant generally provided such forms anyway). An example
elicited verb is almak 'to take' in the long infinitive, alar
'takes in the aorist, and aldi@rmak 'to make take' in the causative
+ infinitive.
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