Karaçay-Malkar Bileşik Sözcük Oluşumu: -sI belirtici için sonuçlar

Abstract

This paper discusses semantic and morpho-syntactic properties of compound formation in Karachay-Balkar with a special focus on NounNoun compounds which surface with or without the marker -sI. We propose that when the head noun is transitive, the non-head has argumental status and the marker -sI is the head of the projection introducing the argument. This is in line with the proposal of Öztürk and Taylan (2016) for the marker -sI in possessive free genitive constructions in Turkish. Turkish belongs to southwestern Turkic language group and Karachay-Balkar to the northwestern group. The investigation reveals that although the distribution of -sI with compounds is not the same in these two languages, behind its obligatory appearance the same pattern is at work: -sI must surface when the head is transitive. Karachay-Balkar is more restrictive in that -sI surfaces only with nouns that are inherently transitive in the absence of type shifting operators. In this paper we also focus on the function of -sI in genitive-possessive constructions. Drawing on compounds in Karachay-Balkar and Turkish, we conclude that what appears on the head noun in genitive-possessive constructions is possessive agreement marker on a par with first and second person agreement markers.