Word order in Turkish

by Özsoy, A. Sumru

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Full title :Word order in Turkish / editor: A. Sumru Özsoy.

Summary

This volume is a collection of studies on various aspects of word order variation in Turkish. As a head-final, left-branching 'free' word order language, Turkish raises a number of significant theory-internal as well as language-particular questions regarding linearization in language. Each of the contributions in the present volume offers a fresh insight into a number of these questions, thus, while expanding our knowledge of the language-particular properties of the word order phenomena, also contribute individually to the theory of linearization in general. Turkish is a configurational language. It licenses constructions in which constituents can occur in non-canonical presubject as well as postverbal positions. Presented within the assumptions of the generative tradition, the discussion and analyses of the various aspects of the linearization facts of the language offer a novel treatment of the issues therein. The authors approach the word order phenomena from a variety of perspectives, ranging from purely syntactic treatments, to accounts as syntax-PF interface or syntax-discourse interface phenomena or as output of base generation.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2019

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Springer
Place of Publication:Cham, Switzerland
Language:eng
Publication Date:2019

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Description:1 online resource

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9783030113858, 303011385X
oclc:on1086610530
LC Classification:PL171
Dewey Decimal:494/.35

Intro; Contents; Introduction; 1 Background; 2 Patterns ofLinearization inTurkish; 3 Issues inLinearization; 4 Issues inTurkish Linearization; 4.1 Configurationality; 4.2 Syntax ofFronting; 4.3 Postverbal Constructions; 4.4 Base Generation Approaches; 5 The Contributions inThis Volume; 5.1 Jaklin Kornfilt; 5.2 Serkan Şener; 5.3 Selçuk İşsever; 5.4 A. Sumru Özsoy; 5.5 Aslı Gürer andAslı Göksel; 5.6 Mine Nakipoğlu; 5.7 Cem Bozşahin; 5.8 Deniz Zeyrek; References; The Syntax of Word Order; How toDerive theDirectionality ofVerb Ellipsis inTurkish Coordination fromGeneral Word Order

1 Introduction2 Establishing the"Predicate-Final Constraint" [PFC]; 2.1 Scrambling Out of Embedded Clauses; 2.2 Embedded Yes/No Questions; 3 The Predicate-Final Constraint and Coordinate Structures with Identical Verb Ellipsis; 4 Some Facts Concerning Coordinate Structures inTurkish and One Previous Analysis; 4.1 The Original Facts andtheClaim; 4.2 Some Facts thatAre Problematic fortheClaim; 5 APossible Solution; 5.1 AFirst Approximation; 5.2 Additional Facts toDistinguish Between Forward Versus Backward CE; 6 ALike-Minded Solution Restated

7 CE of Predicates in"Indirect Coordination"8 Conclusions and Summ…