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Verbs in Turkish have recently been classified as thematic or semantic. Verb classes, and in the narrow sense, thematically based communication verb classes differ from researcher to researcher in terms of both quantity and quality. The reason why verb classes differ from research to research is that verb classifications are mostly based on researchers' intuition. This has led to the classification of verbs with different meaning, syntax, argument and role structure in the same class. The real semantic classes of verbs can be determined not by researchers' intuition, but by more reliable and consistent linguistic bases and criteria. Today, classification studies based on thematic basis have long been abandoned in linguistics research, verbs are generally classified according to linguistic basis and criteria developed specifically for languages, and hybrid approaches are used. Such approaches facilitate the identification of semantic verb classes that describe the semantic relations of verbs such as synonymy, near-synonym, subsynonym, and polysemy. In this study, five (5) different linguistic bases and criteria specific to Turkish were developed in order to determine the subclasses of communication verbs: argument and role structure, argument structure structures, event structure chain, syntactic structure and lexical structure. Sub-classes of communication verbs were determined based on these basics and criteria, and more consistent and sensitive classes were created compared to the thematic-based intuitive verb classifications. Communication verbs are divided into seven (7) main classes in the light of linguistic criteria. Then, each main class is divided into specific syntactic subclasses according to the syntactic structure and behavior of the verbs. With the help of other criteria, each major semantic and sub-syntactic verb class was labeled with four (4) different verb types. At the last stage, the verb class was classified according to a prototype verb that could best represent it and its meaning. This process has revealed thirty-one (31) classes of communication verbs of type I that are sensitive to meaning

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