About The Word-building Issue In Tao Dialect ( According To The Materials Of 2010-2014 Expedition)

Abstract

Tao dialect is rich with diverse and interesting aspects in terms of wordbuilding. Means and rules of word building and are primarily Georgian (generally Kartvelian), however due to the fact of long established co-habitation in the Turkish environment, emerging different elements in Tao dialects tends to be natural. We meet all the types of derivative nouns in Tao dialect: with double roots and diverse roots as well.

Principle forming foreign roots is primarily based on Georgian language rules; Major part of composites are contained in Georgian word-formation framework. The relative part of foreign elements comparing to Georgian forms is small.

In terms of Literary Georgian language and dialects, composites in Tao dialects by origin can be conventionally divided into three groups: a. general Kartvelian, b. dialectic (Taoish) c. foreign ( containing Turkish, Arab, Persian) roots.

My work analyses main types of composite formation due to each group.