Nanosyntactic analysis of Turkish case system

D 2021

Nanosyntactic analysis of Turkish case system

TURK, Utku and Pavel CAHA

Basic information

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

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Stať ve sborníku

Field of Study

60203 Linguistics

Country of publisher

United States of America

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Publication form

electronic version available online

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Organization unit

Faculty of Arts

ISSN

DOI

http://dx.doi.org/10.3765/ptu.v6i1.5051

Keywords in English

Turkish; case; nanosyntax; morphology; specificity; containment

Změněno: 20/1/2022 09:58, doc. Mgr. Pavel Caha, Ph.D.

Abstract

V originále

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).

Links

MUNI/A/1181/2020, interní kód MU

Name: Gramatika a lexikon češtiny

Investor: Masaryk University

Citovat

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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TURK, Utku and Pavel CAHA. Nanosyntactic analysis of Turkish case system. Online. In Gündoğdu, Songül; Taghipour, Sahar; Peters, Andrew. \textit{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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