ADJECTIVE PREFIX ALLOMORPHS IN PERSIAN

Abstract

In linguistics, the phenomenon of affixation, which serves to expand the vocabulary, and in which places allomorphs are used in the creation of lexemes through this method, are of great importance. In this article, the concept of allomorph and its role in linguistics were thoroughly studied, and the theoretical and scientific views of world linguists on it were analyzed. According to this, an allomorph is a variant of a morpheme, and as a separate morph, it participates only in the composition of the corresponding word form, and the possibility of use of each morph observed as this concept is limited and convenient. issues such as the emergence of conditions are covered in detail. In addition, it has been scientifically proven that morphs and allomorphs cannot be used interchangeably. Based on the theoretical views of the Iranian linguist Iron Kalbosi, the nature of adjective-forming allomorphs in the Persian language was determined. Based on the analysis, word-forming allomorphs were divided into two groups: allomorphs that can exchange places in the structure of the base and non-exchangeable allomorphs. In order to shed light on the properties of affixal allomorphs, the functional-semantic properties of adjective-forming prefix نا [nā] and its allomorph نه [na] and the issues of their use in the context were studied through examples from sources and literary books.