Approaches to wh-structures in Turkish
| dc.contributor | Graduate Program in Linguistics. | |
| dc.contributor.advisor | Özsoy, A. Sumru. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Arslan, Zekiye Ceyda. | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-03-16T11:43:31Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-03-16T11:43:31Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1999. | |
| dc.description.abstract | The aim of this study is to analyze and account for the syntactic properties of wh-structures in Turkish within the Government and Binding framework. Wh-constituents in a Turkish interrogative sentence occurs ttin situ", i.e. in the position where a non-question word with the same grammatical function would occur in the corresponding declarative structure. However, the fact that the wh-element can take the matrix scope without undergoing syntactic movement to clause initial position has led to the assumption that Turkish wh-structures undergo a movement rule at the level of Logical Form (Akar, 1990; Ozsoy, 1990). This study presents arguments for a non-raising analysis: of wh-structures in Turkish. It discusses that the LF wh-movement analysis fails to account for the occurrence of adjunct wh-elements within a sentential subject and a postpositional phrase, and further argues that the interpretation of scope interaction of quantifier phrases, wh-constituents and the operator yalnlZca tonly' is left unexplained. The explanation to these structures is offered along the lines of the wh-indexing analysis proposed by Aoun and Li (1993) who claim that wh-elements in situ do not undergo movement at any syntactic level, but instead, get coindexed with a Qu(estion) operator in the [Spec, CP] position of the clause they have scope over. The function of this Qu operator is to bind and provide an antecedent for the wh-element in situ which thus reflects its scopal properties. | |
| dc.format.extent | 30 cm. | |
| dc.format.pages | viii, 94 leaves; | |
| dc.identifier.other | LING 1999 Ar7 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://digitalarchive.library.bogazici.edu.tr/handle/123456789/15805 | |
| dc.publisher | Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute of Social Sciences, 1999. | |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Turkish language -- Grammar. | |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Turkish language -- Interrogative. | |
| dc.title | Approaches to wh-structures in Turkish |
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