Formulaicity within Turkish Words
Abstract
One of the main insights to emerge from the last fifty years
of corpus linguistics has been a greater understanding of the pervasiveness of
formulaic language. Rather than exercising the full generative capacity of
language, speakers and writers have been shown to rely to a great extent on
conventional, pre-constructed phrases drawn from memory. Turkish presents a
particularly interesting and challenging case because its agglutinative
structure means that messages which are spread across several orthographic
words in English are often expressed within a single word in Turkish. While it
is possible that this difference in structure will mean that new types of
formulaicity will emerge in Turkish, a good starting place may be to consider
the extent to which types of formulaicity which are known to exist in English
at the multi-word level exist in Turkish at the sub-word level. The research
discussed here set out to examine this possibility, looking in particular at
three types of formulaicity: collocations, lexical bundles and collostructions.
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References
- Aksan, Y., Aksan, M., Koltuksuz, A., Sezer, T., Mersinli, Ü., Demirhan, U. U., Yılmazer, H., Kurtoğlu, Ö., Atasoy, G., Öz, S., & Yıldız, İ.,Construction of the Turkish National Corpus (TNC),3223-3227,N. Calzolari, K. Choukri, T. Declerck et al.,İstanbul,Electronic,2012
Details
Primary Language
Turkish
Subjects
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Journal Section
Research Article
Authors
Philip Durrant
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University of Exeter, Gradute School of Education
United Kingdom
Publication Date
July 15, 2016
Submission Date
September 12, 2015
Acceptance Date
March 30, 2016
Published in Issue
Year 2016 Volume: 13 Number: 2
