Formulaicity in an agglutinating language: the case of Turkish
Author
Durrant, P.
Date
2013Source Title
Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory
Print ISSN
1613-7027
Publisher
De Gruyter Mouton
Volume
9
Issue
1
Pages
1 - 38
Language
English
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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.
Keywords
CollocationCollostruction
Formulaic language
Lexical bundles
Morphology
Turkish
Usage-based model