Abstract
TEACHING COMPLEMENT CLAUSES IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE CLASSROOMS: A COLLOCATIONAL AND SEMANTIC APPROACH
This study deals with sentences such as “Konuşmaya başladı. Aramaktan çekiniyorum. Gitmesinde ısrar etmeliyiz. Geldiğini biliyorum. Gideceğini söyledi.”, and aims to display the collocational relations between the verbs in complement clause and main clause from a corpus-based perspective. It also attempts to reveal the semantic tendencies, which govern the collocations, and propose a teaching framework for foreign learners of Turkish. The main contrast in Turkish complement clauses in terms of the selection of main verb is observed between -mA and -DIK clauses. For this reason, this study is restricted to -mA and -DIK suffixes. A collocational list of -mayı+verb and -duğunu+verb is extracted from Turkish National Corpus. The collocations in the list are eliminated examining the context of each one manually in order to determine the true verb collocations of the above-mentioned suffixes. The verbs obtained from the elimination task are semantically classified, and a teaching framework is suggested on the base of these findings.
Keywords
Complement clauses, nominalization, collocation, modality, semantic tendencies, teaching Turkish as