Abstract:

This study morphologically examines the nouns in Franz Kafka’s parable entitled “Give It Up!”. Morphology is a subfield of linguistics, which deals with every aspect of language. Words in morphology are separated and classified to the smallest meaningful pieces. These smallest meaningful pieces are named morphemes in morphology and are one of the important, fundamental concepts of morphology. Morphemes in this regard are distinct from phonemes, which are a language’s smallest pieces that separate meaning. Word formation researches the structure of words and the processes of word formation and is a field of morphology. Word formation relates to the formation of new words and defines them. Word formation at this point is separated from inflectional morphology, which relates to the declensions and forms of words. However, contrary to inflectional morphology, word formation relates to word production, thus new words form. This study provides detailed, theoretical information about word formation and the subject area, primarily with morphology. The terms most frequently used in morphology are also explained. The nouns in the parable were chosen after the theoretical information. These nouns were separated into the smallest pieces that carry meaning and were classified. As a result of the study, it was determined which morphological characteristics the nouns in the parable carry and which morphological tools were used in the nouns. Additionally, the types of word formation found in the parable were explained based on the analysis. This study used the morphological analysis method. The data were evaluated based on the conducted research.

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