1.1. Native compounds
TİD native compounds are composed without any interaction with Turkish or any other signed or spoken language. The disparity between native and non-native compounds is illustrated by the following compounds: lunar^eclipse and solar^eclipse. Notice that while the former derives its second element as a translation of the Turkish word tut-ul-ma ‘to be held’ which is the word used for referring to an eclipse, the latter is formed by sign-language-internal (in this case visual and iconic)means.
moon^hold
ay tut-ul-ma-sı (Turkish)
moon hold-PASS-NM-POSS3.S
‘lunar eclipse’
(r.f. Göksel & Taşçı 2016:376)
sun^eclipse
güneş tut-ul-ma-sı (Turkish)
sun hold-PASS-NM-POSS.3S
‘solar eclipse’
(r.f. Göksel & Taşçı 2016: 376)
Many TİD compounds have a single word translation in Turkish, which identifies them as native. Some examples are red^CL(<):'round_object' ‘tomato’(domates in Turkish) and sour^jar‘pickle’(turşu in Turkish). Finally, there are some native compounds that just happen to have the same structure as the corresponding compounds in Turkish (e.g. bed+room-POSS.3S).
Within the group of native compounds, sequential [Morphology – 1.1.1.] and simultaneous compounds [Morphology – 1.1.2.] are two subcategories. Within both groups, there are semantic and syntactic differences.
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