Makale özeti ve diğer detaylar.
The purpose of this study is to examine the opposition pattern of adjectives formed by morphemes -lI and -sız in Turkish and to find out the adjectives with no lexicalized semantic opposition. This study used dictionary entries to identify opposition pattern of adjectives formed by these morphemes and to find out adjectives without any opposite on the basis of this pattern. These adjectives were discussed within the framework of lexicalization parameter in Lehrer (1974) and cognitve salient criteria in Cruse (2004). The lexicalized adjectives formed by -lI and -sIz were examined, and it was noticed that these antonymous words were lexicalized on the basis of nine different lexicalization parameters. For each of these parameters, it was proposed that there are some lexical gaps in them