RELATION OF MEANING AND FREQUENCY IN PERCEPTION VERBS IN TURKISH

TÜRKİYE TÜRKÇESİ DUYU FİİLLERİNDE ANLAM VE KELİME SIKLIĞI İLİŞKİSİ

Abstract

Words change, develop or eliminate its semantic field because of its nature. There are various reasons for all these semantic cases. Every kind of verb that occurs in the mind process called mental verb. Perception verbs are considered as subtype of mental verbs. Perception verbs have very compact frequency because of being mental process initiator. One of the factors that cause the meaning fields of the words to change is the usage frequency. Words can be polysemic as they are used extensively in language. Perception verbs are used extensively in language because of being mental process initiator. Surely five subtypes of each of the perception verbs is not used at the same frequency. The rate of use of visual, hearing, tasting, touching and smell sensation verbs are not equal to each other. For example, visual sensation verbs that are more important to human beings are used more often in language, so these verbs become polysemic.In this article perception verbs in Turkish are scanned in created corpus, relation between the word frequency and polysemy is evaluated.

Özet

Dildeki kelimeler, doğası gereği anlam alanlarını geliştirir, değiştirir ya da yok eder. Tüm bu anlam olaylarının çeşitli nedenleri bulunmaktadır. Kişinin zihin sürecinde gerçekleşen her türlü fiile mental fiil denir. Algılama sürecini başlatan duyu fiilleri, mental fiillerin bir türü olarak kabul edilir. Duyu fiilleri mental sürecin başlatıcısı olması nedeniyle oldukça sık kullanım alanına sahiptir.