COLLOCATION DICTIONARY OF ADJECTIVES IN TEACHING TURKISH: METHOD AND PRACTICE

Abstract

To collect the main vocabulary of a language is the major aims of lexicology works. Lexicology looks after to prepare not only for general purpose lexicon for mother tongue users but also particular purpose lexicons for special aims (e.g. proverbs and idioms dictionary, terms dictionary, synonym words dictionary, antonym words dictionary, collocation dictionary etc.). Today, when the studies are considered about the vocabulary of Turkey Turkish, general purpose lexicon works, and particular purpose lexicons for special aim works are insufficient and limited. In lexicology, collocation dictionary is one of the main products of lexicology, seen as a non mentioned subject at the study of Turkey Turkish vocabulary. On the other hand, in lexicology, collocation has been taken place in literature as an important applying method, especially in the corpus linguistics applications and defining the stage of preferences in language teaching. This study's object is to investigate the collocations in a corpus-based approach, is defined as adjective and lexicalized 11.320 lexemes as headword in Turkce Sozluk (Turkish Dictionary) which is including the vocabulary of Turkey Turkish. This study has speciality is being the first, about purpose, content and method also executing by experienced researchers at similar studies. The anticipated outcomes of this study are as follows: 1. It will be defined the adjectives's syntactic features which have intense usage in generally language and especially in Turkey Turkish. 2. It will be made semantic and syntactic corpus-control of adjectives in Turkce Sozluk (Turkish Dictionary) which is including the vocabulary of Turkey Turkish. 3. It will be defined the concept domains of adjectives-noun and noun-adjectives relationship in Turkish. 4. It will be defined the adjective-noun usages based by frequency appearance relationships about mother tongue and second language teaching for Turkish. 5. It will be collected main data for “Turkey Turkish Collocation Dictionaryâ€?. 6. It will be defined usage of adjectives frequency and priorities of language teaching and usage of nouns frequency and priorities of language teaching. 7. It will be collected significant data about adjectives for other studies and could be accessed to researchers. This study has mainly three stages: In the first stage; a corpus which including about 25 million words were collected from various thematic texts that belong to Turkey Turkish written language and also internet [according to number 5846 Fikir ve Sanat Eserleri Kanunu, Clause 35 (1-4), 36 and 37.] are digitized and become to examined as syntactic by using Mysql data management program and Php. In the second stage; the data from the corpus are marked up by noun-basis and syntactic, selected and the adjectives and nouns that have cohesion between each other were commented by collocational frame. In the third stage; query of the hadwords and data processing was made as collocational frames. Key Words: Lexicology, collocation, adjective, Turkish teaching.