Word Order in Turkish

This volume is a collection of studies on various aspects of word order variation in Turkish. As a head-final, left-branching 'free' word order language, Turkish raises a number of significant theory-internal as well as language-particular questions regarding linearization in language. Eac...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Özsoy, A. Sumru (Editor)
Format: e-Book
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : 2019.
Imprint: Springer,
Edition:1st ed. 2019.
Series:Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, 97
Subjects:
Grammar, Comparative and general > Syntax.
Oriental languages.
Psycholinguistics.
Syntax.
Oriental or Semitic Languages.
Psycholinguistics and Cognitive Lingusitics.
Online Access:Full-text access
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction; A. Sumru Özsoy
  • Part I: The Syntax of Word Order
  • How to Derive the Directionality of Verb Ellipsis in Turkish Coordination from General Word Order; Jaklin Kornfilt
  • On the Ban on Postverbal Wh-phrases in Turkish Syntax; Selçuk İşsever
  • Eliminating Scrambling: The Variation of Word Order in Turkish; Serkan Şener
  • Derivation of Fronting Constructions in Turkish: Feature Cyclicity or Cyclic Linearization; A. Sumru Özsoy
  • Word Order and Syntactic Types; Cem Bozşahin
  • Part II: Word Order and Syntax-Phonology Interface
  • (Prosodic-)structural Constraints on Gapping in Turkish; Aslı Göksel and Aslı Gürer
  • Towards a model of the relation between prosodic structure and object displacement in Turkish; Mine Nakipoğlu
  • Part III: Word Order and Discourse Structure
  • Discourse Structure: The view from Shared Discourse Units in Turkish Discourse Bank; Deniz Zeyrek.

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