REPRESENTATION OF MICROSOFT WINDOWS OPERATING SYSTEM TERMINOLOGY IN SPECIALIZED DICTIONARIES
Keywords:
Windows terminology, izafet compound, derivation, nominalization, agentive suffix, compounding, borrowing adaptation, localization, Turkish morphologyAbstract
This paper examines the morphological-constructive patterns of Turkish Windows terminology through the lens of derivation and compounding. Using strings from the Windows 10/11 UI and official translations, we annotate terms by pattern type. The analysis shows the dominance of izafet-type compounds [N + N-POSS3] (e.g., “görev çubuğu” ‘taskbar’, “güvenlik duvarı” ‘firewall’, “dosya gezgini” ‘File Explorer’) and verbal nominalizations [V + -mA/-me] (e.g., “güncelleme” ‘update’, “eşitleme” ‘sync’). Agentive/instrumental derivatives [V + -(I)CI] (“yönetici”, “bağdaştırıcı”) and adjectival formations with [N + -sIz/-siz] (“kablosuz ağ” ‘wireless network’) are also productive. For borrowed bases (“Bluetooth sürücüsü”, “Wi-Fi ağı”), Turkish suffixes attach in harmony with vowel harmony rules; the 3rd-person possessive in izafet (-(s)ı/-si) remains stable, while pluralization (“Ayarlar” ‘Settings’) encodes category-level meanings.
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