Conversion as one of the ways to form grammatical homonymy in the Crimean Tatar language
Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: The article uses the material of the modern Crimean Tatar language to consider grammatical homonyms formed as a result of substantiation, adjectivization, and adverbialization of the transition of independent words into service words, primary homonyms. In the Crimean Tatar language, there are grammatical homonyms formed by conversion. Conversion has one important problem – the definition of the original and derivative words in a pair of words formed by the conversion. The main pattern of homonymy of words in different parts of speech is that the transition of words from one part of speech to another is associated with the reduction of a paradigm or the separation of a word form this paradigm. When changing words into unchangeable words, the paradigm shortens and narrows. Homonyms referring to one or different parts of speech express different meanings in terms of their paradigmatic and syntagmatic aspects. When writing this paper, the descriptive method and the method of distributive analysis were used to study grammatical homonymy in the Crimean Tatar language. The analysis of the stated facts allows us to draw the following conclusions. Consideration of grammatical homonyms in the modern Crimean Tatar language, including substantiation, the transition of common names into proper names, adjectivation, adverbialization, the transition of semantic words into official ones, primary homonymy indicates the complex nature of the processes occurring during the formation of vocabulary and grammar of the modern Crimean Tatar language. Syntactic and morphological factors that resolve and formalize syntactic changes form grammatical homonyms. In this process, the unity of action of all sides of the language is manifested, their mutual connection and interdependence. Grammatical homonymy is more abstract than lexical. If lexical homonyms are always represented by separate words – carriers of a certain real content, then grammatical homonymy can be expressed not only in the identity of whole word forms, as in all the examples given, but also in the identity of only grammatical formants, as well as in the identity of grammatical constructions or models. Thus, the essence of grammatical homonymy is that they serve as homonyms only due to the coincidence of grammatical forms and are formed as a result of conversion.
Source: Litera
Language: English
Subfield: Language and Linguistics
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4406058247