Strategies to Express Time in a Tenseless Language: Turkish Sign Language (TİD)

Serpil Karabüklü

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Strategies to Express Time in a Tenseless Language: Turkish Sign Language (TİD)

Abstract

The studies on how time is expressed in TİD have different results: Gökgöz (2009) proposes that head nod is a tense morpheme while Arık (2012) and Dikyuva et al. (2015) claim that TİD is a morphologically tenseless language. This study shows that TİD is a morphologically tenseless language based on the occurrence of head nod with different verb types. It is also proposed that tense of a sentence is expressed via time adverbials and shown which syntactic positions time adverbials occur in. Lastly, timelines in TİD, which are only reported on in a few studies, are described based on the placement of time adverbials in the signing space. It is also shown that different time spans require different timelines to be used.

Keywords

: time,tense,Turkish Sign Language (TİD),timelines

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Serpil Karabüklü ^*
Purdue University
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July 2, 2018

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October 15, 2017

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May 15, 2018

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Year 2018 Volume: 29 Number: 1

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Karabüklü, S. (2018). Strategies to Express Time in a Tenseless Language: Turkish Sign Language (TİD). Dilbilim Araştırmaları Dergisi, 29(1), 87-118. https://doi.org/10.18492/dad.373461

Strategies to Express Time in a Tenseless Language: Turkish Sign Language (TİD)

Strategies to Express Time in a Tenseless Language: Turkish Sign Language (TİD)

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Zamansız Bir Dilde Zamanı İfade Etmenin Yöntemleri: Türk İşaret Dili (TİD)

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