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This work investigates some properties of accusative marked indefinite direct objects in Turkish, such as their syntactic position, interpretation and semantic category. A VP-external indefinite NP with accusative case gets a specific reading whereas a VP-internal one lacking ac…

This work challenges some prevalent claims and assumptions about Persian syntax and offers an alternative account. The standard assumption regarding the direct objects in Persian is that they form a natural class syntactically and differ from one another semantically, hence, the…

This is a corpus-based study aimed at determining the nature of alternation between the accusative (ACC) case marking versus non-marking of the direct objects (DO) in Turkish. The analysis of the METU Turkish corpus (Say et al. 2002) and a number of news items taken from the onl…