Research Article

Interactive Grammar and Complex Nominalizations in Turkish

Volume: 31 Number: 1 June 28, 2020
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Interactive Grammar and Complex Nominalizations in Turkish

Abstract

This study examines complex nominalizations in Turkish and proposes formal analyses within a modular grammar where autonomous components operate interactively. The complex nominalizations with the -DIK and -mA suffixations in Turkish have also drawn interest, with a focus on their semantics, in previous studies, and they have been contrasted via the +factive (-DIK) vs. –factive (-mA) features. Csató (1990) and Taylan (1998) consider the two type of nominalizations in terms of +/–indicative and point to a relation between the nominalizations and modality & mood marking. Supporting the contrast which is based on mood, the present study argues that a structural difference underlies it. The study proposes two distinct structures: one for the -DIK type, in which the nominalizer is suffixed to a syntactic unit, and one for the -mA type, in which the nominalizer is suffixed to a verb stem. Treating -DIK as derivational, the study shows that a derivational process may also mark a mood value just like inflectional processes with tense, aspect and person information. The study also illustrates morphological creativity and that morphology can output not only lexeme formations or inflections but highly complex, intermediate units as well. The study refers also to the functional structure (cf. LFG) in the modular grammars: The complex nominalizations and the grammatical relations that they involve indicate that the subject is more restricted than the object and that the active subject is more restricted than the passive subject in Turkish. The study concludes that encoding a mood value is closely related to including a subject for a linguistic unit.

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Details

Primary Language

Turkish

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Journal Section

Research Article

Publication Date

June 28, 2020

Submission Date

March 24, 2019

Acceptance Date

May 19, 2020

Published in Issue

Year 1970 Volume: 31 Number: 1

APA
Kunduracı, A. (2020). Etkileşimli Dilyapısı ve Türkçede Karmaşık Adlaşmalar. Dilbilim Araştırmaları Dergisi, 31(1), 1-31. https://doi.org/10.18492/dad.543902

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