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Word formation in the modern Turkic languages: the process of conversion

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Gatibe Mahmudova Chingiz

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The methods and processes of word formation in the modern Turkic languages have been researched in the work. Being the component of the science of ultracentury Linguistics, word formation expresses the historical feature. The process happening in the certain period of the time assumes the simultaneous importance. In the modern Turkic languages the process of word formation reflects in all stages of the language – in phonetics, lexicology, morphology, syntax. Some language situations can be explained on the basis of the rule of similarity, analogy. One of the different methods existing in language for creating the new word and terms is the method of calque and copy. Most part of new lexical units have been calqued by getting from the Russian, English and other European languages and have paid the demand of the new created scientific fields being to the lexical units certainly in the years of Independence of the Turkic countries. There are some methods of word formation in the modern Turkic languages that, they are used very little. The methods being less productive don't surround all of the Turkic languages. From such methods of word formation, we can express the methods as fiction, naht, cut-transfer-copy, mirror, karma-karma methods. The process of conversion is also one of the processes of word formation in the Turkic languages. The new words are appeared by the conversion of the grammatical characteristics of the word in the process of conversion. The process of conversion is the process of word formation which appeared as the result of facilitating of the grammatical and lexical variations, the abbreviations of ending and suffixes and the morphological structure of word, gained the intensity in the modern Turkic languages.The process of conversion is also one of the processes of word formation in the Turkic languages. The new words are appeared by the conversion of the grammatical characteristics of the word in the process of conversion. The process of conversion is the process of word formation which appeared as the result of facilitating of the grammatical and lexical variations, the abbreviations of ending and suffixes and the morphological structure of word, gained the intensity in the modern Turkic languages.

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