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Huh, I don't think Turkish lets you verb nouns. They've got plenty of ways to turn verbs into nouns but every time I try to make the other way work it just soun
by brian_cloutier 8y ago
Huh, I don't think Turkish lets you verb nouns. They've got plenty of ways to turn verbs into nouns but every time I try to make the other way work it just sounds weird.
Any chance you know the term in linguistics for verbing things? I want to look it up because you're right that this feels like a natural thing to do, it's surprising that Turkish doesn't allow it.
- thaumasiotes 8y agoDerivation is the term for generating one word from another word. I don't think there's a term for specifically deriving verbs. I did find a paper on Google Scholar purporting to list "derivations producing verbs from nouns" in Turkish, "An Outline of Turkish Morphology" by Oflazer, Göçmen, and Bozşahin.