Turkish change of state verbs in the inchoative-causative alternation
| dc.contributor | Graduate Program in Linguistics. | |
| dc.contributor.advisor | Öztürk, Balkız. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Balakbabalar, Feyza. | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-03-16T11:43:40Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-03-16T11:43:40Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2015. | |
| dc.description.abstract | In this thesis, I study the principles that govern the inchoative-causative alternation in Turkish. I present the non-unified derivation of change of state (CoS) verbs in Turkish in light of a Distributed Morphology account by Alexiadou (2014). Based on her four-way classification, I first argue that i) unspecified causation is not a conceptual-semantic category in Turkish that has distinct semantic or syntactic properties and ii) externally caused verbs exhibit similar properties with those investigated in other languages. As for the ICCOS verbs, I argue for a two-way split characterized by the verbs’ ability to alternate. Finally, I present novel data that exhibit a dual behavior in the alternation. Based on this, I claim that semantic classes such as internal or external causation are not root-level properties, as assumed in the literature. Instead, I argue that the semantics of a CoS event – which determines a verb’s potential to alternate – cannot be determined until the theme argument enters syntax. Based on the frequency of occurrence of a verb with a given theme argument, I argue that verbs may be compatible with prototypical and non-prototypical CoS events and hence with more than one syntactic environment. I further argue that the different semantic properties of each CoS event type are reflected in syntax in terms of i) whether they project a Voice head and ii) the feature specifications that the given Voice heads make available. | |
| dc.format.extent | 30 cm. | |
| dc.format.pages | x,147 leaves ; | |
| dc.identifier.other | LING 2015 B36 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://digitalarchive.library.bogazici.edu.tr/handle/123456789/15859 | |
| dc.publisher | Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2015. | |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Turkish language -- Verb. | |
| dc.title | Turkish change of state verbs in the inchoative-causative alternation |
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