Falan Sözlüksel Biriminin Dağılımsal ve Ulamsal Özellikleri
The Distributional and Categorical Properties of the Lexical Item Falan

Summary/Abstract: Therefore, lexical items of a given vocabulary are expected to obey specific morphological and syntactic criteria. For instance, it is known that the aspectual suffix {-(I)yor}, which marks the progressive aspect, is only attached to verbs. falan as the research object has been searched in Turkish National Corpus (TNC), and it has returned 3901 distinct results among 47.641.688 words and 846 texts. As we search this lexical item, whose frequency value in TNC is 81.88 in one million words, in modern reference studies, it is seen that it has not been comprehensively described in terms of its distributional properties yet. The aim of this study is shaped along these lines. To this end, we aim to describe the categorical and distributional properties of this word. In this sense, first, we have explained the categorical and distributional properties of this word and showed that it bears a number of common properties of both postpositions and nouns. Then, we have argued that this lexical item may also belong to a class of word which is referred to as clitics as described in Zwicky (1985). Last, we have shown that it also does not fully reflect the properties of a clitic; thus, concluded the study in a way which suggests that this word strongly exhibits proform features as well.

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