Abstract :
As voice is rather active in semantic change and in casting among the items in the phrase, it stands in the central position in the shaping of a language‟s semantic dimension. Voice suffixes generate particular logical and purposeful changes in the deep and surface structure of the phrase. In due course of these changes, the semantic dimension between the deep structure and the surface structure takes forms. In the grammar-based studies on voice in Turkish, the change in form a verb encounters through affixation and the effect of this formal change on the sentence elements is investigated. This investigation is dealt mostly on the formal plane. However, it is not enough to deal with voice just on the formal plane. Voice should be examined in morphological, syntactic and semantic planes. These morphological dissections carried out without paying attention to the different functions of the same affix are not enough to meet the explanation of the topic. One of the argumentative topics caused by approaching the topic from only the morphological aspect is the situation referred to as “multiple voice”, “multi-voiced”, “double voice”, “multiple passivity”, “multiple factitive”, which is formed when two affixes, which are evaluated within the same voice category are used on the verb stem one after another. Upon approaching voice from the functional perspective, one can utter that affixes which are called as voice affixes do also have the function of “making action words” besides “making process words”. With these functions, these affixes do not cause a syntactic change as they do in voice function and their effects remain limited with the semantic change of the verb. Thus, as one of the voice affixes is used with the functions of “making an action word” ,“making a process word” or “intensifying” in the structures which are given as “multiple voice”, “multi-voiced”, “double voice”, “multiple passivity” and “multiple factitive”, in grammar sources, the naming of the multiple voice is determined as incorrect. This paper will investigate the successive use of voice affixes which are given under the names multiple voice, multi-voiced, double voice, multiple passivity and multiple factitive in grammar sources by focusing on the “making an action word” ,“making a process word” and “intensifying” functions of affixes which are called voice affixes, apart from those that have voice functions. It will be urged upon that in fact multiple voice does not exist in these structures and one of the aforesaid affixes is used for the aim of “making an action word”, “making a process word” or “intensifying” functions apart from voice functions.
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multiple voice , making a action word , making process word , intensifying
