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RedFame, vol.5, no.9, pp.94-99, 2017 (Peer-Reviewed Journal)
When discussing about "plurality" of nouns in Turkish, it reminds /+lar/ affix after nouns (morpheme) and the subject is
undervalued. Whereas, plurality and formation of plurality is not simple as it is thought as well as it is not made up of
/+lar/ affix. It is because /+lar/ affix is only one of the linguistic elements in the morphological plurality used for
making plural in Turkish.
Out of /+lar/ affix, /+An+/, /+Ar+/, /+(ş)Ar+/, /+GIl+/, /+GUn+/, /+ºK+/, /+lA+/, /+ºs+/, /+ºş+/, /+ºT+/, /+ºz+/ affixes
have given plurality, plus, double, group, generalization, exaggeration, respect etc. to the words they are added in the
historical process of Turkish. However, a major part of affixes used in plurality by morphological ways in Turkish has
lost their function of plurality etc. in the historical process and combined with the base, origin, and body of their words.
The plurality in Turkish is a name of category (as it is in all world languages) and made in three ways: Morphological
plurality, semantic plurality, and syntactic plurality
In this article, information is given primarily in "generality" and "singularity" and secondarily in plurality in Turkish,
ways of forming this category, and some problems in learning it.