TURK, Utku and Pavel CAHA. Nanosyntactic analysis of Turkish case system. Online. In Gündoğdu, Songül; Taghipour, Sahar; Peters, Andrew. Proceedings of the Workshop on Turkic and Languages in Contact with Turkic 6. Washington, DC: Linguistic Society of America, 2021, p. 1-15. ISSN 2641-3485. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.3765/ptu.v6i1.5051.
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Original name Nanosyntactic analysis of Turkish case system
Authors TURK, Utku and Pavel CAHA.
Edition Washington, DC, Proceedings of the Workshop on Turkic and Languages in Contact with Turkic 6, p. 1-15, 15 pp. 2021.
Publisher Linguistic Society of America
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Original language English
Type of outcome Proceedings paper
Field of Study 60203 Linguistics
Country of publisher United States of America
Confidentiality degree is not subject to a state or trade secret
Publication form electronic version available online
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Organization unit Faculty of Arts
ISSN 2641-3485
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.3765/ptu.v6i1.5051
Keywords in English Turkish; case; nanosyntax; morphology; specificity; containment
Changed by Changed by: doc. Mgr. Pavel Caha, Ph.D., učo 53172. Changed: 20/1/2022 09:58.
Abstract
This paper takes two challenging characteristics of the Turkish case sys- tem and shows that a nanosyntactic analysis can cover both. The first puzzle is that some cases, namely ACC and GEN, in Turkish show alternations between specific and non-specific forms, while other cases like DAT and INS do not. The second puzzle concerns containment relations in morphology. Caha (2009) proposes that cases stand in a containment relation. In some languages like Estonian, Tocharian, and Vlax Romani, the ACC form serves as the foundation of the oblique cases. The puzzle is that in Turkish, the morphological containment holds only for ACC and GEN, but not for ACC and the other obliques. The comparison leads us to expect that the INS in Turkish could be *adam-ı-la, with the ACC marker to the left of -la. Interestingly, this expectation fails precisely in those cases which do not distinguish specific and non-specific forms. We propose a solution to both of these puzzles within the Nanosyntactic framework. The main idea is that Turkish nouns and cases can be composed of smaller, sub-morphemic features. These features allow specificity information to be encapsulated within the noun itself, rather than the case as previously suggested by Öztürk(2005).
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MUNI/A/1181/2020, interní kód MUName: Gramatika a lexikon češtiny
Investor: Masaryk University
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