Classification of the idioms in Niğde dialect interms of structure

The study explores and examines the concept of "idiom," the idioms used in the dialect of Niğde province, and the classification of these idioms based on their structures. The study consists of an introduction, a structural classification of idioms, a dictionary, and conclusion sections. In the study, an introduction was given before the idioms were categorised based on their structures. The introductory section states the study's objective, importance, scope, and limits, as well as its methodology. The following section includes explanations of the idea of "idiom" as well as studies on the semantic and structural classification of idioms.In the third section of the study, the obtained idioms were categorised as idioms based on sentence structure. The chapter's first section categorises the idioms from the Niğde area based on their structures. Idioms are divided into the following categories: idioms formed with auxiliary verbs and whose basic element is the main verb, idioms in the structure of noun phrases, idioms in the structure of adjective phrases, idioms in the structure of attributional phrases and prepositional phrases, idioms in the structure of reduplications, idioms in the structure of sentences, and idioms consisting of one word. Idioms consisting of a single word are further classed as nouns or verbs. In the second section of the study, the idioms used in the dialect of Niğde province, collected by evaluating and scanning the sources, were converted into a dictionary. The conclusion section states that 700 idioms from the Niğde dialect were retrieved. Furthermore, the research was evaluated, and the rates of idioms discovered to be employed in the other locations were incorporated. The numerical data from the structural categorization of the idioms was then used to create tabular lists. Key Words: Niğde, Niğde Dialect, Idioms, Structure of Idioms, Classification of Idioms.