Description of relational processes in Turkish within the framework of functional grammar

As it is stated by Halliday in ?An Introduction to Functional Grammar?, the fundemantal components of meaning in language are functional components. According to this perspective, all languages are organized around two main kinds of meaning; the ideational or reflective, and the interpersonal or active. These components are called ?metafunctions?.Metafunctions are represented by two general purposes of all uses of languages: to understand the environment; and to act on the others in it. The third component is the textual metafunction, which is related with the other two.Because the first general purpose is to understand the environment, it is not possible to think of a text only in terms of its structure, without considering the meaning. According to the Systemic-Functional Grammar, the text is a semantic, not a grammatical one. The meanings are realized through wordings and without a theory of wording, there is no way of making explicit one?s interpretation of the meaning of a text.Systemic-Functional Grammar Theory makes it possible to analyse the text with its three dimensions ?the ideational, interpersonal and textual- at the same time.Within the framework of Systemic Functional Grammar, this study aims to describe the relational processes in Turkish with these questions:1)How do the relational processes occur in Turkish?2)What is the relation between the nominal sentences ?as a syntactic structure- and relational processes ?as a functional process- in Turkish?3)In what other ways do the relational processes occur except for the nominal sentences?To make it possible to find answers to the primary investigation questions, ?functional analysis, transitivity analysis and the ?token and value? are used.Keywords: Systemic-Functional Grammar Theory, clause as representation, transitivity analysis, relational processes, attributive and identifying processes, token and value and nominal sentences.