Nominal Markers in Punjabi

Abstract

The paper investigates word formation processes in Punjabi. In Morphology, word formation has various processes and one of them is affixation particularly suffixes in which derivational morphemes are used to derive new words. There are two types of derivational morphology. One is class maintaining morphemes but the other is class changing morphemes. The paper is dealing with both to form nouns from all open class categories. There are few nouns which carry derivational morphemes but do not change the class. These types of words and morphemes are categorized under class maintaining derivations. The purpose of paper is to deal with nominal markers which form or derive nouns from other nouns, verbs, adverbs, adjectives. This area is less researched field in case of Punjabi. It is a good opportunity for future researchers to bring something new in the field of research.