A Corpus-based Study On The Function Of Word Formative Elements In Uighur

Language being the most important communication tool of human being,it is necessary to create new terms which express new conception or new objects precisely in order to cope with frequent exchange and communication developing day by day.however,word formative elements in Uighur language have not been fully depicted,nor has a reference book or word formation corpus been formed for the press and publishing organizations.as a result,forming of new terms in Uighur can’t exert its agglutinative character,they are mainly created via translation,as a matter of fact lots of so-called terms which are worthy of the name are vague or hard to grasp.Here in this dissertation,guided by the theory and method of Marxism,on the basis of previous studies,with the guidance of the theories of modern linguistics and with the help of other modern techniques in language research,using the corpus built on the basis of “The detailed dictionary of Uighur language”.besieds,the author made a research on the the productivity of affixes,word roots,and aims to provide reliable data for the study of modern Uighur language.The thesis is consisted of four parts in all,part one is introduction,it mainly introduces the reason and meaning of choosing this research title,also narrates the present research state and method.Part two is about the classification and function of word formative elements on the basis of corpus,the word formative elements in Uighur language are maily divided into three,they are as word root,word stem and affix.besides,the author classifies the word formative elements in Uighur language into four,based on its structure,source,meaning and function.In Part three,the author made a stastical analysis and description about the productivity of word formative root.using the corpus built on the basis of “The detailed dictionary of Uighur language”,the author sifted 107 productive word roots out of 34554 words on the basis of corpus and conducted a thorough research on every one of them and points out that the number of the syllable which consists of word is somehow relevant to the productivity of a word root,one syllable word roots have the strongest word formative function,two syllable word roots are second in word formative function,word roots which are consisted of three or more than three syllables has a weak productive function.according to their productivity,one or two syllable words are inducted as active word root,word roots which are consisted of three or more than three syllables are concluded as passive word roots.above is innovative point od this dissertation.Part four is about the grammatical function of word formative elements in Uighur language,mainly narrates the function of affixes which forms nominal words from nominal words,affixes which forms verbs from nominal words.