Linguistic Corpora: A View from Turkish

Abstract

Usage-based linguistic studies have gained new insights as corpus-based and corpus-driven analyses have advanced in recent years. Linguists working in different domains have turned to corpora as a major source in their study of language at all levels of representation. Currently, corpus linguistics is evolving into a sophisticated methodology in extracting and analyzing data. Building and using corpora in Turkish linguistics is a recent undertaking, initially motivated by work on natural language processing (NLP) research. The number of available corpora is increasing and linguistic research has come to test hypotheses on attested data, or uncover more lexical and grammatical patterns of use that have gone unnoticed in the absence of corpus data. Advances in NLP research and tools provided for corpus building and annotation further contribute to corpus studies in Turkish linguistics.