Research Article

On the non-actuality inferences in Turkish avertives

Volume: 35 Number: 2 December 24, 2024
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On the non-actuality inferences in Turkish avertives

Abstract

Languages have various forms of expressing implications of imminency and non-actuality. While a variety of constructions such as imperfectives, proximatives or adverbs like almost crosslinguistically imply the counterfactuality of the event in question, some languages like French and Turkish have exclusive morphemes expressing imminence while at the same time logically asserting the non-actuality of an event. This study has a particular focus on the Turkish morpheme -(y)Ayaz, which when combined with a predicate indicates that the event expressed by the predicate has not been actualized although it was close to be so. We argue that this is part of what -(y)Ayaz asserts, and provide a compositional semantics for sentences involving this morpheme. Finally, we show that our semantics sheds light on the combinatorial restrictions concerning lexical aspect and outer aspect.

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Details

Primary Language

English

Subjects

Linguistic Structures (Incl. Phonology, Morphology and Syntax) , Lexicography and Semantics

Journal Section

Research Article

Publication Date

December 24, 2024

Submission Date

March 7, 2024

Acceptance Date

September 3, 2024

Published in Issue

Year 1970 Volume: 35 Number: 2

APA
Dikmen, F., & Demirok, Ö. (2024). On the non-actuality inferences in Turkish avertives. Dilbilim Araştırmaları Dergisi, 35(2), 133-150. https://doi.org/10.18492/dad.1448720