DUAL DERIVATIONAL MARKERS: A STUDY OF URDU NOMINAL-CUM-ADJECTIVAL MARKERS

Abstract

The core purpose of the present work is to analyze the Urdu nominal-cum-adjectival markers with structural, positional, distributional, percolational, and functional perspectives. The dual derivational markers are securitized with the lens of morphology-syntax nexus. In the paradigm of morphemic productivity, the dual derivational markers form a sub-feature of productivity. These markers present two complex derivational perspectives: dual derivation with the nominal or adjectival roots and dual derivation with the nominal roots. They are analyzed within the framework of Generativism and Lexical Functional Grammar (LFG) with purposive sampling technique. The template to function analyzer is devised to apply morphosyntactic features on the nominal-cum-adjectival markers. The present study proposes morphological attribute value matrix (MAVM) to capture functional multiplicity of each morpheme of the complex derivatives by producing f-structure. The dual derivational perspective is expected to work equally for other Indo-Aryan languages, as their word structure contains similar formal properties, as possessed by the Urdu complex derivatives. The present work seems to contribute to the derivative theory for the Indo-Aryan languages.