The Process of Productivity and Elements in the Formation of Compound words in Kurdish and Persian

Abstract

The research which has been devoted to a topic entitled The Process of Productivity and Elements in the Formation of Compound words in Kurdish and Persian aims to identify the process of compounding and its productivity in Kurdish and Persian. The steps of the research has been designed to determine this process and its productivity, along with the elements involved in compounding, and their roles in the formation of compound words. Successively, the same basis has been applied to Persian. The research has found out that the process and morphological elements of Kurdish related to the formation of compounds, and the resulting compounds and alternative morphological forms used in formation are compared. In contrast, in Persian, the process of formation is less active and the language depends on the hegemony of Arabic and the process of borrowing from that language. The research, despite using descriptive and analytical method, has compared these two languages. As previously mentioned, the research material has been taken from both standard Kurdish and Persian.