Özet:

Inflection and derivation are two very different processes in morphology. However, there are not strict distinctive features between them. Inflectional suffixes can be used for word-formation and vice versa even in the modern Turkic languages. Diachronic analysis of Turkic languages demonstrates transformation from grammatical to lexical suffixes. It is not the only possible process, because with the increasing productivity and the grammaticalization of meaning, derivational morphemes, especially suffixes making nominals from verbs in the language of Orkhon Inscriptions began to be used in verbal inflection in the modern Turkic.

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