A Tale of Constructions Turkish
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Over the past fifty years, linguistics has seen various approaches to grammar. Starting with Noam Chomsky (1957, 2014), linguists assumed that grammar was generated based on a set of rules, universally and innately integrated in humans’ minds. For years, this framework has been the main approach for many linguists to apply to languages, including Turkish. Nowadays, with Adele Goldberg (1995, 2006, 2019), Construction Grammar (CXG) is introduced to the linguistic landscape of syntax. Both approaches intersect at trying to “capture the creative nature of languages” (Goldberg, 2019). Being a relatively new framework, most work has been done in the English language. Turkish, on the other hand, has not been studied within the CXG framework to the researcher’s knowledge. Therefore, this paper is a short illustration of how Turkish linguists can utilize CXG by introducing and exemplifying the intensifier construction (IntCx) and the unevidential construction (UneCx).
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Aşağıda başlığı verilen ve ekte tam metni sunulan makalemin İngiliz Dili ve Edebiyatı Kulübü Dergisi’nde yayımlanmasını istiyorum. Makalenin daha önce başka bir dergide yayımlanmadığını ya da yayımlanması için gönderilmediğini taahhüt ederim.
Ekteki yazımın yayımlanmasını kabul ettiğimi, herhangi bir eser/fikir hırsızlığı, intihal vb. durumlarda İngiliz Dili ve Edebiyatı Kulübü Dergisi’nin sorumlu olmadığını, her türlü yükümlülüğün bana ait olduğunu biliyorum. Saygılarımla gereğini arz ederim.
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