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Item A split model for category specification: lexical categories in Turkish(Thesis (Ph.D.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2009., 2009.) Uygun, Dilek.; Göksel, Aslı.This dissertation discusses the nature of the traditionally recognized categorial distinctions "noun", "adjective" and "verb" in Turkish and investigates whether these distinctions are specified in the lexicon or in syntax. Based on the constraints governing the morphological and syntactic distribution of lexical expressions in Turkish, this study shows that there is a lexically specified category distinction among lexical expressions which is represented in the lexicon by the ± values of a single feature N. It is argued that this distinction divides lexical items into three major groups: +N expressions which are stative, –N expressions which are nonstative and expressions which are unspecified for the value of N. It is argued that the traditional noun-adjective distinction does not represent a category distinction in the lexicon and +N expressions become nouns in syntax through case assignment and become adjectives when they occur in attributive modification structures. It is further demonstrated that there are in fact no verbs in the lexicon and that the expressions traditionally classified as verbs are composed of a -N root expression and event heads such as CAUSE, DO and BECOME. This study, in conclusion, introduces a model of category specification which is split between the lexicon and syntax and demonstrates that as there are expressions in the lexicon with specified category features, there are also expressions with unspecified category features and which are categorized in syntax.Item Semantic, prosodic, and syntactic marking of Information Structural Units in Turkish(Thesis (Ph.D.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2015., 2015.) Gürer, Aslı.; Göksel, Aslı.This dissertation focuses on how Turkish encodes information structural units within semantics, prosody and syntax interface. Information packaging is investigated under the classification of (i) aboutness topic, (ii) contrastive topic, (iii) contrastive focus, (iv) discourse-new focus, and (v) discourse anaphoric constituents. Focus phrases are differentiated not based on a designated syntactic position or the feature of contrast but based on exhaustive identification with contrastive focus phrases. The prosodic properties of focus phrases in SOV order indicate that (i) when focus is in the immediately preverbal position, contrastive focus and discourse-new focus and broad focus sentences do not differ significantly with respect to duration or pitch height at any of the measurement points, (ii) focus in sentence initial, medial or final domains is always marked as the rightmost phonological phrase with intonational phrase level prominence, which marks the beginning of the nuclear fall. The syntactic investigation of the interaction of information structural units with negation and quantifier scope illustrate that all movement operations are driven by discourseinterpretational purposes. Additionally, vP does not show phasehood properties and the derivation of the data is captured via eventual, situational, and propositional domains and clause-internal functional projections. In the absence of TP, (i) CP does not show phasehood properties as evidenced by binding data, ECM clauses, bounding nodes, (ii) temporal information is encoded as a secondary effect of Mood.