Corpus-driven Lexical Profiles of the Turkish Synonym Set Sadece, Yalnızca and Yalnız

This is a corpus-driven study based on the TNCv3.0 to identify lexical profiles of the synonym set of Turkish exclusive adverbials sadece, yalnızca and yalnız within the framework of the Model of Extended Lexical Units (Stubbs, 2002). From the concordances of the adverbials, their context-dependent...

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Main Author: Muhammet Fatih Adıgüzel
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BÜTEK Boğaziçi Eğitim Turizm Teknopark Uygulama ve Dan. Hiz. San. Tic. A.Ş. 2019-06-01
Series:Dilbilim Araştırmaları Dergisi
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Online Access:http://dad.boun.edu.tr/download/article-file/728333
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Summary:This is a corpus-driven study based on the TNCv3.0 to identify lexical profiles of the synonym set of Turkish exclusive adverbials sadece, yalnızca and yalnız within the framework of the Model of Extended Lexical Units (Stubbs, 2002). From the concordances of the adverbials, their context-dependent semantic, pragmatic and syntactic properties, co-occurrence tendencies, and synonymity levels were identified. It was found that sadece and yalnızca have a high contextual and collocational equinormality and are completely intersubstitutable and complete synonyms (Lyons, 1981) with yalnızca used less frequently. Yalnız is polysemous and multifunctional and has a sense synonymy relation with the others only when it means only. Even in the sense of only, yalnız was found to be rarely used in certain lexical bundles the other adverbials form. Yalnız was also found to have a topic shifter function. In contexts in which yalnız means only, the three adverbials are cognitive synonyms (Cruse, 1986).
ISSN:1300-8552
2587-0939