Abstract
While language provides the interaction between human and environment, it is also in a position affected by these factors. As a communication tool, language has to change with the various effects brought by time and the environment and continues to develop. For this reason, the language, which has to derive new words by using its internal mechanism according to changing conditions, realizes this with a limited number of materials. For this, it always uses different ways. Therefore, the ways of word formations continue to vary. Word formation and lexicalization involve various and different processes. New words that did not exist before in the language can be derived in these ways. Word formation can also take place through the inclusion of existing words into a different word class as a result of the change in function.
Serial verbs appear as more than one verb meeting a single action or having more than one action in a verb. Serial verb constructions function in the context of lexicography in Turkish. In serial verb constructions in which more than one verb acted as a single verb, successive verbs can change function as a result of usage frequency and stereotyping and turn into compound nouns. It is seen that a large part of these compound nouns have become a meaningful language unit and become permanent with the lexicalization process. In Turkish, underlying the emergence of compound nouns such as “çekyat, kapkaç, biçerdöver, oldubitti” lies the function change of serial verbs. Some of these words are used only in spoken language, some in written language and some in dialects. It is noteworthy that those with increasing frequency of use are permanent units in the written language. In this study, the relationship between serial verbs and lexicalization is dealt with from a multi-faceted perspective, and examples in Turkish are analyzed in this context.