New Lexical, Semantic and Structural Developments in Turkish Cover Image

Türkçede Sözvarlığı, Anlam ve Yapıyla İlgili Yeni Gelişmeler
New Lexical, Semantic and Structural Developments in Turkish

Author(s): Mehmet Kara, Ersin Teres
Subject(s): Syntax, Lexis, Semantics, Historical Linguistics, Philology
Published by: Uluslararası Kıbrıs Üniversitesi
Keywords: Turkish; vocabulary; semantic extension; words and terms of recent vintage; pointed words;

Summary/Abstract: New words and terms in all languages begin to emerge for the life. These words and terms are included in language separately and they also make contact with various elements of the language. As the depth of these relationship increases, these words and terms settle in the language more easily. The same applies to Turkish. As all languages, Turkish has an inclination for developing its phonology and structure, vocabulary and syntactic features. This is sometimes noticed with the changes in the meaning of a word due to various causes or with the new word or terms that come into that language. It also shows itself through the changes in the affixes and the structures of the sentences. This paper is concerned with the development of Turkish over the last three decades and some new lexical, semantic and structural changes in it. Under the main headings, it is discussed some words which take semantic extension, new words, compounds and terms of recent vintage, terms, idioms and phrases, new words made by translation, new propositional phrases and idioms made by using the internal facilities of language, mobility in possessive suffix of third person. These subtitles include some different subtitles in themselves. Besides, the reasons of this progress and change are going to be analyse in this paper. Increasing and decreasing of frequency of meaning and the status of provisional words are the other issues in this paper.

  • Issue Year: 19/2013
  • Issue No: 73
  • Page Range: 81-104
  • Page Count: 24
  • Language: English