Prof. Dr. Mehmet ÖZMEN - Çukurova Üniversitesi

ABSTRACT
CO-OCCURENCE AND COLLOCATIONS OF ADVERBS WITH VERBS
IN TURKISH
Bülent ÖZKAN
Ph. D. Thesis, Türkish Language and Literature Department
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Mehmet ÖZMEN
September, 2007 / XXXIII+538 pages
In this study, we invetstigated the co-occurunce of adverbs that is lexicalizied in the form of
headword collocated with verbs used in Turkish and Turkish Dictionary in a corpus-based
methodology.
The corpus has been compiled Turkish literary texts which consist of 12.321.000 (+-) words
(token), and then this corpus digitalized in MySQL database form for lexical queries. At the
same time, the database is a form for sentence-adverb parsing. The thesis topic includes
sentence that is involved 2616 adverb in the form of headword or head content in Turkish
Dictionary. We worked on relationshiop between verb and adverb that is coherence together
in terms of their semantic and syntactic side in the co-occurence and collocation notion.
Briefly, this study is summarized in two title:
1) Controling Turkish Dictionary in the corpus-based frame.
2) To discover Turkish adverbial collocated structures that is important for mother tongue
learning, esspecially foreign language learning.
Keywords: Adverb, verb, co-occurence, collocation, corpus linguistics, lexicography,
Turkish Language.
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