Compounding with a Polymorphic Deverbaliser in Turkish

Nominalisation is a morphological process producing noun on the basis of an input that may belong to various categories. As syntactic category, whether something can only be decided evidence, not its meaning or behaviour. theoretical framework, I use Jackendoff’s Parallel Architecture (PA) as basis, but argue for separate word formation component. The central difference between rules and regular lexical entries latter contribute production representation interpreted performance, whereas former produce new entries, thus changing competence. consequence, expression in performance needs identification reference communicative context, concept speaker’s knowledge, which involves onomasiological coercion. A distinction made two types nominalisation, illustrate with Dutch examples. In one type, changed, e.g. jager ‘hunter’ from jagen ‘huntv’, other it not, telling ‘countn’ tellen ‘countv’. Nominalisations type are transpositions. This both deverbal deadjectival nouns. Rules representations PA classified seven classes according structures they modify. Only those change conceptual structure qualify being part excludes Many nouns either transposition result formation. An example vertaling ‘translation’, refer translation. there rule produces second reading first, show this belongs predicted by typology modifying PA.