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Intensified Reduplicated Adjectives in Azarbaijani Turkish

Nasser Abbasi, Elahe Moradkhani

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This paper presents a general overview of different types of reduplication in Azarbaijani Turkish which is an agglutinative language and the main focus of this study is on one of the more interesting Turkish adjectival constructions which arises when you add a prefix to’intensify’ the meaning of an adjective which is called emphatic reduplicated adjectives and also we attempt to find some principles for making this kind of reduplication which is frequently used in speech and is the only usage of prefix in this language by studying them phonologically and morphologically. We also provide some data taken from native speakers of Azarbaijani Turkish to make some generalization about this kind of reduplication and to find out whether independent lexicalization play any role in fixing particular emphatic forms in this language apart from any underlying phonological process or not.

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This paper presents a general overview of different types of reduplication in Azarbaijani Turkish which is an agglutinative language and the main focus of this study is on one of the more interesting Turkish adjectival constructions which arises when you add a prefix to’intensify’ the meaning of an adjective which is called emphatic reduplicated adjectives and also we attempt to find some principles for making this kind of reduplication which is frequently used in speech and is the only usage of prefix in this language by studying them phonologically and morphologically. We also provide some data taken from native speakers of Azarbaijani Turkish to make some generalization about this kind of reduplication and to find out whether independent lexicalization play any role in fixing particular emphatic forms in this language apart from any underlying phonological process or not.

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This paper presents a general overview of different types of reduplication in Azarbaijani Turkish which is an agglutinative language and the main focus of this study is on one of the more interesting Turkish adjectival constructions which arises when you add a prefix to’intensify’ the meaning of an adjective which is called emphatic reduplicated adjectives and also we attempt to find some principles for making this kind of reduplication which is frequently used in speech and is the only usage of prefix in this language by studying them phonologically and morphologically. We also provide some data taken from native speakers of Azarbaijani Turkish to make some generalization about this kind of reduplication and to find out whether independent lexicalization play any role in fixing particular emphatic forms in this language apart from any underlying phonological process or not.

Key concepts: Reduplication, Lexicalization, Agglutinative language, Adjective, Linguistics, Prefix, Turkish, Focus (optics)

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