VERB SYNTHESIS AND FREQUENCY

Successive affixation in agglutinative languages derives complex structures. This study introduces frequency information of affix sequences in verbal domain from a corpus data. Recurent patterns of morphgrams formed by combinations of voice suffixes from non-finite template with other verbal inflections from finite template are extracted from the corpus. Starting with the simple two-morphgram patterns to the most complex nine-morphgrams, affix sequences are cited in the corpora. Samples indicate that Turkish do not derive monsterous words but rather limits the number of affixes that may be attacehed to a verb root or stem. Various statistical calculations also indicated the significance of grammatical patterns of affixes. The method and findings of the study have implications for morphological processing in agglutinative languages.