Description of Grammatical Collocation Aspects in Turkish Language: A Corpus-Based Application on the preposition "gibi" Cover Image

Türkçede Dilbilgisel Birliktelik Görünümlerinin Betimlenmesi: “gibi” İlgeci Üzerine Derlem Temelli Bir Uygulama
Description of Grammatical Collocation Aspects in Turkish Language: A Corpus-Based Application on the preposition "gibi"

Author(s): Ayşe Eda Gündoğdu
Subject(s): Morphology, Turkic languages
Published by: T.C. MEHMET AKİF ERSOY ÜNİVERSİTESİ EĞİTİM FAKÜLTESİ
Keywords: co-occurance; preposition; corpus;

Summary/Abstract: A preposition, one of the function words in a language, is a structure that cannot be used alone but can be used without any suffixes/affixes or along with some bound morphemes. The main purpose of this study is to describe the systematical use / co-occurance aspects and semantic characteristics of the aforementioned preposition in terms of the principles and methods of corpus linguistics. This study has benefitted from the database of the demo version of TNC (Turkish National Corpus). Thematic analysis method has been used in order to interpret the findings of the study. These findings were put forth with the percentage and frequency analysis through Excel and SPSS 16.0 programs. In this study, the conditions required to build a phrase structure from the aforementioned preposition and what kind of semantic extensions it provides to the system have been discussed. In conclusion, it has been observed that the aforementioned preposition can be collocated with nouns, verbs, gerunds and similar prepositions and function as different extensions such as simile, imminence and quickness.

  • Issue Year: 5/2019
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 1-11
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: Turkish
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