The process of Zero drafting in Kurdish language From the perspective of lexical morphological theory

Abstract

In the basis of morphological morpheme theories, morphemes are considered the primal of formation processes. However, in a process of converting (zero drafting), the theory cannot represent the formation of some words such as in (جوان) -Adj, (جوان) -N.  In this process, no affixes are contributing the formation. There is no foundation for the rules of these words which goes through with the process of drafting. It is apparent that lexical morphological models can determine the formation schemas of words which undergoes through the zero-formation process. The characteristics are determined in language on the basis of formation charts. When words become bases, the affixes will only have the function of changing their properties. So modifying the characteristics of words determines the processes. In Kurdish language, all processes of legal Zero drafting formed in the second lexical Strata, except that returns back to the lexical from syntax due to the stress position are the main force in changing the first lexical strata.