The Internal Structure of the Derived Word in Kurdish Language According to the Morpheme-Based Model and the Word-Based Model

Abstract

Word-formation is part of linguistics that deals with the internal structure of words. It aims at creating a theory in order to describe and explain the lexical structures of all languages. This has derived from the hypothesis that if grammar is the systematic language knowledge of an interlocutor, then possibly there could be a substructure hypothesized inside the grammar structure that explains the lexical knowledge of the interlocutor. Thus, this study has focused on both models, base-morpheme and base-word, which are one of the language models that have been pointed out in the frame of the school of production linguistics so as to analyze and interpret the lexical system of language. This study, particularly, is based on the perspective of (Mark Aronoff, 1976) in the model of base-word. Also, in terms of base-morpheme, the perspective of (Morris Halle, 1973) has been taken into consideration. In fact, these two perspectives are considered the turning point in research on word-formation. Therefore, we have made attempts to analyze the structure of derivational words in the Kurdish language with reference to these two perspectives to obtain the morphological rules that exist in an orderly and abstract way in the cognitive parts of the native speakers of the Kurdish language. These rules are called the "pillars" of language because they are the foundation from which other elements are made.