A Grammar of Turkish Sign Language (TİD)

1.2.2. Modified loans

In certain borrowed compounds, the order in the loan compound is reversed for phonological or semantic reasons. We refer to these cases as “modified loans”. For instance, the Turkish word for mau mau (a card game) is pis+yedili (nasty+seven-ASSOC). In TİD, however, the order of the two parts is reversed, which might be explained by the phonological tendency of placing the component articulated in a higher position in the signing space first.

seven^nasty

pis+yedi-li (Turkish)

nasty+seven-ASSOC

‘mau mau (cardgame)’

room^sit

otur-ma+odası (Turkish)

sit-NR room-POSS.3S
‘livingroom’

(Kan & Gökgöz 2009)

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Meltem Kelepir

Bibliographical reference for citation

The entire grammar:
Kelepir, Meltem (ed.). 2020. A Grammar of Turkish Sign Language (TİD). 1st ed. (SIGN-HUB Sign Language Grammar Series). (https://thesignhub.eu/grammar/tid) (Accessed 31-10-2021)

A Chapter:
LastName, FirstName. 2020. Syntax: 3. Coordination and Subordination. In Kelepir, Meltem (ed.). 2020. A Grammar of Turkish Sign Language (TİD). 1st ed. (SIGN-HUB Sign Language Grammar Series), 230-237. (https://thesignhub.eu/grammar/tid) (Accessed 31-10-2021)

A Section:
LastName, FirstName. 2020. Phonology: 1.1.1.2. Finger configuration. In Kelepir, Meltem (ed.). 2020. A Grammar of Turkish Sign Language (TİD). 1st ed. (SIGN-HUB Sign Language Grammar Series), 230-237. (https://thesignhub.eu/grammar/tid) (Accessed 31-10-2021)

LastName, FirstName. 2020. Syntax: 3.1.2.1.3. Manual markers in disjunctive coordination. In Kelepir, Meltem (ed.). 2020. A Grammar of Turkish Sign Language (TİD). 1st ed. (SIGN-HUB Sign Language Grammar Series), 230-237. (https://thesignhub.eu/grammar/tid) (Accessed 31-10-2021)