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Derivation, Compounding, and Borrowing Productivity in Kurdish (Sorani Dialect): A Corpus-based Study | ||
| Journal of Language Studies | ||
| Volume 9, Issue 4, Part 1, December 2025, Pages 181-193 PDF (499.36 K) | ||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||
| DOI: 10.25130/Lang.9.4.P1.10 | ||
| Authors | ||
| Hezha Hamid Mustafa; Ali. M. Jukil | ||
| Department of English, College of Basic Education, Salahaddin University, Erbil, Kurdistan Region, Iraq | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Morphological productivity is defined in terms of how frequent a morphological rule produces distinct words. In Kurdish, a word formation process may be used to result in more new words than other processes. Thus, in this paper, the facilitators and the barriers of the concept of productivity in Kurdish (Sorani Dialect) is demonstrated with examples. Additionally, the three-word formation processes which are derivation (dařiştin), compounding (lêkdan), and borrowing (wergîran) are examined theoretically by providing a historical background concerning each process. Meanwhile, they are analyzed practically by classifying (sorting) the corpus data according to each word formation process distinctly. After taking each process’s frequency of word production, the concluding points concerning the number of different words produced by each process is declared in the conclusion. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Morphological Productivity; Compounding; Derivation; Conversion; Corpus-based | ||
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