Grammatical Deviances in Addresses Inversions

Abstract

Addressing that have been frequently used in Turkish since the first written sources, are language units that convey a referent to the other person or people by means of addressing. These units, which vary according to people’s relationships such as age, gender, social status and kinship in communication, are inflected with various morphemes according to the mutual situations of the source and target within the context of the moment of utterance within the framework of the principle of the language vitality. However, it has been determined that some addresses encountered in Türkiye Turkish, especially in the recent period of spoken language, are not selected in accordance with the mutual roles of the source and the target at the time of communication and do not take the morphemes expected / required to be used by the source. In cases where the source addresses the target in his/her own role, sometimes a diminutive and always a possessive suffix is added to the address: anne(ciği)m, baba(cığı)m… In this study, focused on how these vocalizations, which appear to be grammatical deviations as well as role deviations, may have emerged in Türkiye Turkish. In Türkiye Turkish, this situation will be the proposition that it is a result of the law of least effort has been opened to discussion. The study aims to reveal the reasons of this situation, which can be considered as “mumpsimus”, by approaching the address inversion from a grammatical and semantic perspective.

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Ahsen Ayan: Conceiving the Study, Data Collection, Data Analysis, Writing up. Hande Ünver Özdoğan: Data Analysis, Writing up, Submission and Revision.

The authors, declare no conflicts of interest in this study.

This research received no external funding