Which statement correctly describes a feature commonly encoded by Turkish morphology?

• A. Turkish morphology encodes tense, number, case, and agreement within a single word.
• B. It relies exclusively on word order for grammar.
• C. It uses no affixes at all.
• D. It only encodes semantic information.

Answer: (A)

Turkish uses agglutinative morphology, attaching many suffixes to a base word to express grammatical information. This means tense, number, case, and agreement can all be encoded in a single word through a sequence of affixes, rather than relying on separate words or rigid word order. So the statement that best describes Turkish morphology is that tense, number, case, and agreement are encoded within a single word. The idea that grammar comes exclusively from word order is not accurate here, because Turkish packs most of the grammatical meaning into the word itself. It certainly uses affixes, so it’s not correct to say there are no affixes, and the language encodes more than just semantic content through morphology.