A computational approach to collectivity and distributivity in Turkish quantificational sentences
| dc.contributor | Ph.D. Program in Linguistics. | |
| dc.contributor.advisor | Demiralp, Mine Nakipoğlu. | |
| dc.contributor.advisor | Kelepir, Meltem. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Bülbül, Eda Esra. | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-10-22T03:48:25Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-10-22T03:48:25Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2010. | |
| dc.description.abstract | This dissertation discusses the nature of quantificational sentences with the quantifiers her “every” and bütün “all” in Turkish and investigates how quantificational sentences get interpreted in terms of collectivity / distributivity. Departing from previous approaches, the study proposes to examine the role each constituent of a sentence attributes to the interpretation of a sentence and claims that the distributive or collective interpretation of a sentence is a function of the meanings of its constituents pertaining to the notion of collectivity and of the way they are combined. The model proposed in the dissertation puts forward a computational interpretation mechanism referred to as the Modified Plus Principle which operates on the feature of [alphaCOLL] that every constituent in a structure is assumed to bring from the lexicon. This interpretation mechanism enables us to argue that lexical items associated with the [-COLL] feature such as the distributive predicates, the quantifier her “every” and singular nouns are potentially have a more influential role than the ones associated with the [+COLL] feature such as the collective predicates, the quantifier bütün “all” and plural nouns in interpreting a sentence as either collective or distributive. | |
| dc.format.extent | 30cm. | |
| dc.format.pages | xii, 391 leaves; | |
| dc.identifier.other | LING 2010 B85 PhD | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://digitalarchive.library.bogazici.edu.tr/handle/123456789/20016 | |
| dc.publisher | Thesis (Ph.D.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2010. | |
| dc.subject.lcsh | English language -- Quantifiers. | |
| dc.title | A computational approach to collectivity and distributivity in Turkish quantificational sentences |
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