NOMINAL CIRCUMFIXATION OF COMPLEX DERIVATIVES IN URDU
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This paper delves into the nominal complex circumfixation in Urdu. The present endeavor decomposes the circumfixation and studies its constituents with structural, hierarchical, and functional perspectives. The objectives of the study comprise tracing the underlying patterns of the nominal complex circumfixation of Urdu, demonstrating the complex circumfixation through binary branching, and highlighting functions of each morpheme of circumfixation with the proposed morphological attribute value matrix (MAVM). The present work is descriptive accomplished in the paradigm of qualitative research. It uses purposive sampling technique to trace and elaborate the nominal complex circumfixation. From the print and online resources, the nominal circumfixes are ransacked and enlisted with transcription and etymology. It is brought on the surface that the X part of the nominal circumfix is free-standing in some cases. The study explores that the constituents of circumfixation do not violate the binary branching and are presentable on the hierarchical trees. It is found that the proposed mechanism MAVM traces the features left over by the phrase structure morphology. The study concludes that the Urdu complex circumfixation is idiosyncratic in relation to the X free-standing part of the nominal circumfix, its realization on the binary branching, and the application of the feature-checking analyzer MAVM.
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