Disentangling Words, Clitics, and Suffixes in Uyghur

Turkic languages have been shown to form words using a wide range of word-formation strategies, such as suffixation, cliticization, and auxiliaries. The present paper offers a detailed description of word formation in Uyghur, compares the patterns in Uyghur with the prior literature on Turkic, offer...

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Main Authors: Travis Major, Connor Mayer, Gülnar Eziz
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2023-08-01
Series:Languages
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2226-471X/8/3/203
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Summary:Turkic languages have been shown to form words using a wide range of word-formation strategies, such as suffixation, cliticization, and auxiliaries. The present paper offers a detailed description of word formation in Uyghur, compares the patterns in Uyghur with the prior literature on Turkic, offers explicit diagnostics for suffixes and clitics, and proposes a morpho-syntactic analysis for each strategy.
ISSN:2226-471X