Institutionalization Process in Turkish

Institutionalization is defined as the process of bringing a new word in the society speaking the language. Nonce words are the first step of the institutionalization process. Words that appear in a language at least once in a particular context, yet are not adopted by language speakers, are called...

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Main Authors: Fatma Cansel ÖZER, Özge CAN
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Published: Dilbilim Derneği (The Linguistics Association) 2020-12-01
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Online Access:http://dad.boun.edu.tr/tr/download/article-file/1015681
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description Institutionalization is defined as the process of bringing a new word in the society speaking the language. Nonce words are the first step of the institutionalization process. Words that appear in a language at least once in a particular context, yet are not adopted by language speakers, are called nonce formations. A nonce word is institutionalized if it becomes widespread to a certain extent. No comprehensive and detailed study exists on the process of institutionalization and the scaling of this process in the literature. To this end, this study aims to find out words which are in the process of institutionalization, to reveal how close they are to the lexicalization process, and to determine whether the word formation methods and derivational morphemes in the words in this process are parallel to the typological data by a statistical measurement applied on the frequency of use. First, words in the institutionalization process have been determined, and then in order to determine the institutionalization ratios of the words examined, the Turkish National Corpus 3.0. has been used. Institutionalization ratios are divided into three basic sets by means of a quartile analysis applied on the frequency values of the words. Q1 set with geyikle- and ebelemeç covers those that are relatively least institutionalized; Q2 covers a set moderately institutionalized such as tırcı and negzel, words; The set of Q3 covers the words that are the closest analysis value to lexicalization in the process of institutionalization, such as tırsak and terso. Of the words in the sample, 52.9% have been derived by affixation, evenly with 7.8% by borrowing, clipping, compounding and onomatopoeia. The most common derivative morphemes are -CI and -lIk, but these morphemes have not been among the words in the final stage of institutionalization.
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spelling doaj-art-96afaa70419c4fed99dae0919cc800cb2025-08-20T02:43:04ZengDilbilim Derneği (The Linguistics Association)Dilbilim Araştırmaları Dergisi1300-85522587-09392020-12-01312141184https://doi.org/10.18492/dad.707078Institutionalization Process in TurkishFatma Cansel ÖZER0https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8587-1099Özge CAN1https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2864-2649Dokuz Eylül UniversityDokuz Eylül UniversityInstitutionalization is defined as the process of bringing a new word in the society speaking the language. Nonce words are the first step of the institutionalization process. Words that appear in a language at least once in a particular context, yet are not adopted by language speakers, are called nonce formations. A nonce word is institutionalized if it becomes widespread to a certain extent. No comprehensive and detailed study exists on the process of institutionalization and the scaling of this process in the literature. To this end, this study aims to find out words which are in the process of institutionalization, to reveal how close they are to the lexicalization process, and to determine whether the word formation methods and derivational morphemes in the words in this process are parallel to the typological data by a statistical measurement applied on the frequency of use. First, words in the institutionalization process have been determined, and then in order to determine the institutionalization ratios of the words examined, the Turkish National Corpus 3.0. has been used. Institutionalization ratios are divided into three basic sets by means of a quartile analysis applied on the frequency values of the words. Q1 set with geyikle- and ebelemeç covers those that are relatively least institutionalized; Q2 covers a set moderately institutionalized such as tırcı and negzel, words; The set of Q3 covers the words that are the closest analysis value to lexicalization in the process of institutionalization, such as tırsak and terso. Of the words in the sample, 52.9% have been derived by affixation, evenly with 7.8% by borrowing, clipping, compounding and onomatopoeia. The most common derivative morphemes are -CI and -lIk, but these morphemes have not been among the words in the final stage of institutionalization.http://dad.boun.edu.tr/tr/download/article-file/1015681lexical institutionalizationlexicalizationnonce formationderivational morphemeword formation
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Institutionalization Process in Turkish
Dilbilim Araştırmaları Dergisi
lexical institutionalization
lexicalization
nonce formation
derivational morpheme
word formation
title Institutionalization Process in Turkish
title_full Institutionalization Process in Turkish
title_fullStr Institutionalization Process in Turkish
title_full_unstemmed Institutionalization Process in Turkish
title_short Institutionalization Process in Turkish
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topic lexical institutionalization
lexicalization
nonce formation
derivational morpheme
word formation
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