Bound Base Morpheme and its Role in Forming Words in Kurdish Language

Abstract

This study, entitled " bound base morpheme and its role in Kurdish language", is an attempt to introduce the bound base morpheme in Kurdish and to analyze the morphology of the words in which this type of morpheme plays (i.e. the role of the base). The study consists of three sections and follows the method of analytical description. The first part is a theoretical section is devoted to the discussion of bases, their characteristics and types of bases, the difference between the bound base and affix, and the role of bound base both for bound root and bound base. The second part includes the practical part of the research, in which the role of the bound base morpheme the in Kurdish-language has been investigated, and the words which have been produced are classified and separated according to the type of their products, dictionary categories, and the rule of their construction. The third part is dedicated for the statistics of all the words that the bound base is having role in their forming and construction are shown in charts. Finally, the results, the list of sources and the summary of the research were presented in Arabic and English.