THE RESEARCH ON SUB MORPHEMIC WORDS IN THE MONGOLIAN EXPLANATORY DICTIONARY

Morphemes are the smallest individually meaningful elements in the utterances of a language.1) Thus the morphemes are all meaningful. There are many methods for forming new words in the contemporary Mongolian language and one of them is word formation by suffixes. New word is formed with connected suffix to its root. However, the exciting phenomenon that new word has no semantic meanings is emerged when suffix connected to word roots. In morphology, it is called sub morpheme. There are many concepts such as sub tune, sub pronunciation, sub meaning and sub part in the linguistics and “Submorph” the object of our study is considered as one of those concepts. It is subunit at the lingual morpheme level and generally this subunit has no particular semantic meaning when it connected to word roots, but minor variance in the applied stylistics. Therefore the subunit of lingual morpheme has the different definition and title for instance Zemskaya E.A, Kubryakova E.C “Sub morpheme”, Shanskii N.M “Affecksoide”, Vort D. S “Morpheme no semantic meaning”, Lopatin V.V “redundant” or “insert” morpheme, Vinocur G. O “ variation of root”, Moiseev A. I “quasi-morpheme” etc. Although these titles seem different, they have defined the main characteristics of sub morpheme. The sub morpheme in Mongolian language has not been fully studied, but the researchers Bazarragchaa M., Tuya Sh. and Iderbayar B. from Mongolia, Purbeev G.Ts. from Russia and Setsentsogt Sh. from the Republic of China had raised the concept of sub morpheme in their publications. Many sub morphemes namely as –ga (-га4), -s (-с), -m (-м), -j (-ж), -tš (-ч), -r (-р), aa- (-аа4), -ts (-ц), -n (-н), -t (-т) are found in Mongolian language, among them –ga (-га4), -s (-с) suffixes are mostly used in word formation2). The studied sub morphemes have mostly found in meanings such as abstract concept meaning words: khandal/ga (хандал/га), amjil/ga (амжил/га), amidral/ga (амьдрал/га), words indicating state and features resulted by acts: nugalaa/s (нугалаа/с), chigjee/s (чигжээ/с), evkhee/s (эвхээ/с), utilization indicating words damnuur/ga (дамнуур/га), damjuur/ga (дамжуур/га), balruul/ga (балруул/га), act source, actor indicating words: zasuul/ch (zasuul/ch), manaa/ch (манаа/ч), tonuul/ch (тонуул/ч), sign indicating adjectives: bugt/g/ur (бөгт/г/өр), avsaar/ga (авсаар/га), dankhi/ga/r (данхи/га/р), relative adjectives: achaa/s/tai, evkhee/s/tei and verbs: khania/lga/kh (ханиа/лга/х), gaikha/shir/kh (гайха/шир/х) etc’s. As seen from the instances, sub morphemes in Mongolian language has no particular semantic meaning like “redundant or insert” in other languages, however it is minorily differentiated in word forms and applied stylistics. In terms of apposition method, sub morphemes are normally found in noun, verb and adjective. We have studied sub morphemic words repetitions, their descriptions, and their meanings “Mongol khelnii delgerengui tailbar toli” (2008) that published by Institute of Language and Literature of Mongolian Academy of Science.