Research Article

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

Volume: 30 Number: 1 May 31, 2019
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Corpus-driven Lexical Profiles of the Turkish Synonym Set Sadece, Yalnızca and Yalnız

Abstract

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).

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Primary Language

English

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Journal Section

Research Article

Publication Date

May 31, 2019

Submission Date

September 3, 2018

Acceptance Date

May 15, 2019

Published in Issue

Year 2019 Volume: 30 Number: 1

APA
Adıgüzel, M. F. (2019). Corpus-driven Lexical Profiles of the Turkish Synonym Set Sadece, Yalnızca and Yalnız. Dilbilim Araştırmaları Dergisi, 30(1), 1-41. https://doi.org/10.18492/dad.456892

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