The Verb in Turkish
The Verb in Turkish

Author: Eser Erguvanl? Taylan

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

Published: 2002-02-21

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 9027297614

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This book is a collection of articles on the properties of the verb in Turkish as the core element of clause structure, by linguists from different parts of the world. Articles present the most recent analyses on the Turkish language carried out in various theoretical orientations within the functional-formal range. The topics researched in the contributions center around properties of verbal inflection as the morphological means to express temporal, aspectual and modal notions, and the implications of these morphological configurations to syntactic theory.

Studies on Turkish and Turkic Languages
Studies on Turkish and Turkic Languages

Author: Aslı Göksel

Publisher: Otto Harrassowitz Verlag

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 462

ISBN-13: 9783447042932

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This book contains papers presented at the Ninth International conference on Turkish Linguistics, held in Oxford in August 1998. The papers cover a wide range of topics in theoretical and descriptive linguistics relating to Turkish and Turkic languages, bringing together the work of the most eminent researchers in the field. In addition to articles in the core areas of linguistics which focus on topics such as the morpho-syntactic properties of argument structure, word stress, aspect and modality, word order, embedding, cliticisation and compounding, there are sections on psycholinguistics, language acquisition, discourse analysis, language contact and bilingualism. Although the main language of investigation is Modern Turkish, the articles cover a wide range of Turkic languages, including Karaim, Eynu, Sarigh Yoghur, Salar, Gagauz, Noghay, Khalaj, and Iraqi Turkmen, some of which are endangered, as well as historic varieties such as Middle Turkish, Old Anatolian Turkish and Old Turkic. The book will be of interest to linguists working on theoretical, comparative and diachronic aspects of linguistic research as well as those who are interested in descriptive aspects of Turkish and other Turkic languages.

Affectedness at the Morphosyntax-Semantics Interface
Affectedness at the Morphosyntax-Semantics Interface

Author: Semra Kızılkaya

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2024-07

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13: 3111311279

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The monograph explores the semantic and morphosyntactic representation of affectedness, i.e., the property of an event participant to undergo change, in transitive predicates. Specifically, it provides a first in-depth investigation of how affectedness, the notion of path, and resultativity determine Differential Object Marking (DOM) in Turkish. It argues that affectedness is the crucial event semantic characteristic enhancing DOM, and articulates a theoretical link between affectedness in the lexical syntactic structure and morphological accusative marking. The study addresses affectedness from a cross-linguistic perspective and makes a remarkable contribution to our understanding and modelling of the syntax-semantics interface.

Advances in Role and Reference Grammar
Advances in Role and Reference Grammar

Author: Robert D. Van Valin, Jr.

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

Published: 1992-01-01

Total Pages: 583

ISBN-13: 9027277516

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This volume presents research on major issues in syntactic theory within Role and Reference Grammar. This theory was first presented in detail in Functional Syntax and Universal Grammar [FSUG], and these papers represent both expansions and applications of the theory to a wide range of phenomena. The first section contains an introduction to the theory which is the most thorough statement of it since FSUG, summarizing the features of Role and Reference Grammar established there and developing new theoretical components and analyses of syntactic phenomena not discussed in the earlier work. Throughout the discussion features of RRG are compared and contrasted with comparable features of other syntactic theories. The remainder of the volume is devoted to detailed analyses of specific problems, e.g. control, case marking, in a wide variety of languages, e.g. Mandarin Chinese, Nootka, Mparntwe Arrernte and Turkish. Thus the works presented here illustrate well the strong cross-linguistic approach to syntactic theory and description in Role and Reference Grammar.

Exploring Interfaces
Exploring Interfaces

Author: Mónica Cabrera

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2019-08-22

Total Pages: 319

ISBN-13: 1108488277

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An innovative exploration of the interface between grammar, meaning and form.

Auxiliary Selection Revisited
Auxiliary Selection Revisited

Author: Rolf Kailuweit

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2015-03-05

Total Pages: 372

ISBN-13: 3110348861

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A central debate about the description of auxiliary selection concerns the regularity of auxiliary selection from a typological perspective. Thus, studies of auxiliary selection have both stressed the fact that certain recurrent parameters are highly relevant to the description of auxiliary selection, whereas other studies demonstrate significant differences in auxiliary selection systems. By integrating the synchronic and diachronic levels of linguistic description, the papers in the present volume work towards a framework that explains these contradictory findings. They discuss the role of semantic and syntactic constraints in gradient auxiliary selection, address the question of paradigmaticity of the have-be alternation, and shed light on the mechanisms of the gradual historical change from be- to have-selection. The volume thus puts forth a row of innovative theoretical and empirical findings from a wide range of typologically diverse European languages that substantially broaden our knowledge about the mechanisms of auxiliary selection systems.

Definiteness Effects
Definiteness Effects

Author: Susann Fischer

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Published: 2016-08-17

Total Pages: 475

ISBN-13: 1443898007

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This volume explores in detail the empirical and conceptual content of the definiteness effect in grammar. It brings together a variety of relevant observations from a typological, diachronic and a bilingual/second language acquisition perspective, and provides a general overview of different approaches concerned with the syntactic, morphological, semantic, and pragmatic properties of the Definiteness Effect in a series of European and non-European languages.