Türkçe'de Ayrık Yapılar: Bir Sınıflandırma Çalışması

Abstract

This study attempts to classify the Turkish cleft constructions on the basis of their formal properties. The present research also reports from the corpus-based analysis of Turkish clefts carried out on 6 written texts (3 mystery and 3 history novels). As well as providing information on frequencies of occurrence across a range of cleft-construction under investigation, the corpus-based analysis shows that using a corpus enables the researchers to make more objective and reliable statements than the introspective analysis carried out on derived examples permit. The findings of the corpus-based analysis indicate that in Turkish the cleft-constructions are syntactically formed with the combination of a relative subordinate clause and a copular main clause, in which the relative clause semantically identifying the highlighted element establishes an equative relation with the copular main clause. With reference to this formal definition, Turkish cleft-constructions are classified as Contrastive-Clefts, There-Clefts, Be-Clefts, One-Clefts, This-Clefts, Thing-Clefts, Holistic-Clefts, Place-Clefts and Only One-Clefts. Among these cleft-types, Contrastive-Clefts can be considered as the basic cleft-constructions with the highest frequency of occurrence in Turkish, as far as the present corpus is concerned.