The Place of The Generative Lexicon Theory in Semantics

Yıl 2017, Cilt: 5 Sayı: 2, 1 - 13, 19.09.2017

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Öz

There are many theoretical studies on semantics that constitute both thinkers and linguists’ interest area. Within the historical development, as these theoretical approaches sometimes complete each other and sometimes differ from each other, they enabled the researchers to make brand new opennings. Particularly in the last twenty years, the Generative Lexicon Theory has been one of the theories that emphasize the importance of items forming the sentence and their position within the sentence in the identification of sentence meaning. The theory based on the Compositionality Principle indicates the importance of utilizing the meaning of the words co-occurring while specifying the meaning of the whole sentence. In this article, after presenting a brief background on the historical development of semantics studies, the theoretical contributions the theory makes to the studies of semantics are discussed with examples in details.

 Key words; Semantics, Generative Lexicon Theory, Polysemy, Presupposition

Üretici Sözlük Kuramının Anlambilimdeki Yeri

Öz

      Hem düşünürlerin hem de dilbilimcilerin ilgi alanını oluşturan anlambilim konusunda yapılmış pek çok kuramsal çalışma bulunmaktadır. Tarihsel gelişimi içerisinde bu kuramsal yaklaşımlar bazen birbirini tamamlar bazense birbirinden farklılaşırken, araştırmacıların yepyeni açılımlarda bulunmasını sağlamıştır. Özellikle son yirmi yıllık dilimde Üretici Sözlük Kuramı anlamın belirlenmesinde tümceyi oluşturan ögelere ve bunların tümce içindeki konumunun önemine vurgu yapan kuramlardan birisi olmuştur. Tümleme ilkesine dayanan kuram tümcenin anlamının belirlenmesinde sözcüklerin bir arada bulunduğu diğer sözcüklerin anlamından yararlanmanın önemi üzerinde durur. Bu makalede anlambilim çalışmalarının tarihsel seyri hakkında kısa bir arka plan bilgisi sunulduktan sonra, kuram örneklerle birlikte detaylarıyla tanıtılarak anlambilim çalışmalarına yaptığı katkı ele alınmaktadır. 

 

Anahtar Kelimeler; Anlambilim, Üretici Sözlük Kuramı, Çokanlamlılık, Önvarsayım

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