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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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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 2024 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
AMA
1.Dikmen F, Demirok Ö. On the non-actuality inferences in Turkish avertives. JLR. 2024;35(2):133-150. doi:10.18492/dad.1448720
Chicago
Dikmen, Furkan, and Ömer Demirok. 2024. “On the Non-Actuality Inferences in Turkish Avertives”. Dilbilim Araştırmaları Dergisi 35 (2): 133-50. https://doi.org/10.18492/dad.1448720.
EndNote
Dikmen F, Demirok Ö (December 1, 2024) On the non-actuality inferences in Turkish avertives. Dilbilim Araştırmaları Dergisi 35 2 133–150.
IEEE
[1]F. Dikmen and Ö. Demirok, “On the non-actuality inferences in Turkish avertives”, JLR, vol. 35, no. 2, pp. 133–150, Dec. 2024, doi: 10.18492/dad.1448720.
ISNAD
Dikmen, Furkan - Demirok, Ömer. “On the Non-Actuality Inferences in Turkish Avertives”. Dilbilim Araştırmaları Dergisi 35/2 (December 1, 2024): 133-150. https://doi.org/10.18492/dad.1448720.
JAMA
1.Dikmen F, Demirok Ö. On the non-actuality inferences in Turkish avertives. JLR. 2024;35:133–150.
MLA
Dikmen, Furkan, and Ömer Demirok. “On the Non-Actuality Inferences in Turkish Avertives”. Dilbilim Araştırmaları Dergisi, vol. 35, no. 2, Dec. 2024, pp. 133-50, doi:10.18492/dad.1448720.
Vancouver
1.Furkan Dikmen, Ömer Demirok. On the non-actuality inferences in Turkish avertives. JLR. 2024 Dec. 1;35(2):133-50. doi:10.18492/dad.1448720
