Negative polarity Kimse and free choice Bir Kimse :|a unified semantic analysis
| dc.contributor | Graduate Program in Linguistics. | |
| dc.contributor.advisor | Guerzoni, Elena. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Filiz, Feyza. | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-03-16T11:43:46Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-03-16T11:43:46Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2020. | |
| dc.description.abstract | The goal of the present dissertation is a semantic study of the Turkish expression Kimse and; specifically, a unified analysis of two apparently distinct Polarity Sensitive Items, namely Negative Polarity and Free Choice Kimse. I show that Kimse is a “Polarity Sensitive” (PS) item with a dual nature. Specifically, I observe that bare Kimse acts like a Negative Polarity Item (NPI) but Kimse preceded by the indefinite determiner Bir ‘a(n)’ is an existential Free Choice (∃-FC) Item. In his analysis of similar phenomena, Chierchia (2013) argues that NPIs and FCIs must belong to a linguistically uniform class and, for that matter, fairly widespread class and proposes a unified analysis of Free choice and Negative Polarity in a variety of Germanic and Romance languages as well as some Slavic ones, namely an Alternative and Exhaustification-based Approach (AEA henceforth). Extending this theory to the dual nature of Kimse, I provide additional support to the idea that Polarity Sensitivity and Free Choice phenomena are related. | |
| dc.format.extent | 30 cm. | |
| dc.format.pages | xii, 122 leaves ; | |
| dc.identifier.other | LING 2020 F56 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://digitalarchive.library.bogazici.edu.tr/handle/123456789/15883 | |
| dc.publisher | Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2020. | |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Pragmatics. | |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Turkish language -- Semantics. | |
| dc.title | Negative polarity Kimse and free choice Bir Kimse :|a unified semantic analysis |
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