Belirginleerek

Belirginleerek is a proposed Turkish linguistic term used to describe a rhetorical-grammatical device in which a statement or phenomenon is foregrounded by a construction that makes it more evident to the reader or listener. It appears in a limited body of descriptive linguistics and has not yet been standardized in dictionaries or reference grammars.

Etymology and form: The term combines belirgin (clear, evident) with a gerund-like formation that signals the manner in which something becomes evident. In scholarly treatments it is often discussed as a functional or stylistic category rather than a fixed morpho-syntactic unit. It is sometimes compared to ordinary Turkish -erek/-arak constructions that express “by doing X,” signaling a process or mode of becoming evident, though the precise status of belirlginleerek remains disputed.

Usage and function: Belirginleerek is used primarily in discourse analysis and rhetoric to label phrases or clauses that emphasize how a phenomenon becomes visible, typically through the presentation of evidence, the progression of reasoning, or a deliberate contrast. The device is said to guide reader interpretation by foregrounding the evidential path from data to conclusion.

Attestation and reception: The term has limited attestation and is not widely adopted in mainstream Turkish grammar. It figures mainly in niche analyses, conference discussions, or exploratory corpus studies that investigate stylistic foregrounding and the mechanics of making phenomena more evident to an audience.

See also: belirginleşmek, belirgin, Turkish gerund-like constructions, discourse foregrounding.