The Morphological Compounding of the Kurdish Language

Abstract

This research addresses )The morphological compounding of the Kurdish language(, which attempted to illustrate the foundation and background of morphological production. Focusing on morphological products, the study dealt with compounding processes and their products which are the outcome of these processes, consequently, the compounding itself results in producing compounds in morphology. Based on the same principle, compounding is also illustrated. This way, the information obtained through compounding is used to produce morphological and syntactic structures. The study is limited to the coordinate and non-coordinate morphological and syntactic compounds in which it searches for structured and production principles and demonstrates their similarities and differences. The study’s investigation procedures were conducted via a descriptive-analytical approach. In terms of theoretical background, most of the work was to gain well-formedness and produce well-formed structures, a little focus has been given to semantic principles. Research subjects and data were taken from the middle dialect of the Kurdish language.