Verbs in Turkish Sign Language: A cognitive linguistic approach

Bahtiyar Makaroğlu; Elif Arıca Akkök; Yeşim Aksan

doi:10.18492/dad.374146

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Verbs in Turkish Sign Language: A cognitive linguistic approach

Abstract

Recent studies show that semantic components of event structure are decomposable. In this study, the semantic components of events and event structure constructions will be examined within the framework of Talmy (2000) and Tang & Yang (2007)’s model on sign languages. Our analysis shows that lexical verbs have the same mechanisms with classifier predicates in terms of event structure constructions. Besides, we have determined that semantic components of event structure have an effect on lexicalization which seems to be one of the most important reasons of lexical variations in Turkish Sign Language (TİD).

Keywords

event structure,lexical verbs,sign language,lexicalization,templatic morphology

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Birincil Dil

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Bölüm

Araştırma Makalesi

Yazarlar

Bahtiyar Makaroğlu ^*
ANKARA ÜNİVERSİTESİ
Türkiye

Elif Arıca Akkök
ANKARA ÜNİVERSİTESİ

Yeşim Aksan
MERSİN ÜNİVERSİTESİ

Yayımlanma Tarihi

2 Temmuz 2018

Gönderilme Tarihi

27 Ekim 2017

Kabul Tarihi

18 Nisan 2018

Yayımlandığı Sayı

Yıl 2018 Cilt: 29 Sayı: 1

DOI

https://doi.org/10.18492/dad.374146

IZ

https://izlik.org/JA82CC23NY

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Makaroğlu, B., Arıca Akkök, E., & Aksan, Y. (2018). Verbs in Turkish Sign Language: A cognitive linguistic approach. Dilbilim Araştırmaları Dergisi, 29(1), 119-137. https://doi.org/10.18492/dad.374146

Verbs in Turkish Sign Language: A cognitive linguistic approach

Verbs in Turkish Sign Language: A cognitive linguistic approach

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Türk İşaret Dilinde Eylemler: Bilişsel dibilimsel bir yaklaşım

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