Formulaicity in an agglutinating language: the case of Turkish
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Philip Durrant
Philip Durrant is Assistant Professor in the Graduate School of Education at Bilkent University in Ankara, Turkey
Abstract
This study examines the extent to which complex inflectional patterns found in Turkish, a language with a rich agglutinating morphology, can be described as formulaic. It is found that many prototypically formulaic phenomena previously attested at the multi-word level in English – frequent co-occurrence of specific elements, fixed ‘bundles’ of elements, and associations between lexis and grammar – also play an important role at the morphological level in Turkish. It is argued that current psycholinguistic models of agglutinative morphology need to be complexified to incorporate such patterns. Conclusions are also drawn for the practice of Turkish as a Foreign Language teaching and for the methodology of Turkish corpus linguistics.
About the author
Philip Durrant is Assistant Professor in the Graduate School of Education at Bilkent University in Ankara, Turkey
©[2013] by Walter de Gruyter Berlin Boston
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