Negation in Turkish scientific texts

This study aims at describing the frequencies and functions of negation with verbal predicates in Turkish scientific text. Negation is accepted as universial linguistical device. Negation is generally defined as an inflectional device which is marked what it?s absent or hold off the event. The concept of negation is pragmatically the denial of assumption or expectation. This study also aims at the text specific features of negation, narrative and scientific texts. The first chapter introduces the purpose of the study, its limitations and the importance of it when compared to the research in the field. Chapter two given the theoratical framework of the negation and related notions. Chapter 3 describes the formal aspects of negation in Turkish. The forth chapter represents the findings and discussions of this research. The last chapter provides an overall view of the results of this research.