The causative-inchoative alternation in Turkish Sign Language and the age-of-acquisition effects on complex clauses
| dc.contributor | Graduate Program in Linguistics. | |
| dc.contributor.advisor | Gökgöz, Kadir. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Kayabaşı, Demet. | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-03-16T11:43:48Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-03-16T11:43:48Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2020. | |
| dc.description.abstract | This study aims to describe the causatives-inchoative alternation in Turkish Sign Language and to discuss the age-of-acquisition effects on multi-predicative constructions observed as both causative and inchoative clauses. The discussion extends itself to remarks on the structure of alternating verbs and serial verb constructions. I present and discuss the results of three tasks: a picture-description task, a picture matching task, and an acceptability judgment task. The results obtained from these tasks reveal that (i) the causative-inchoative alternation in Turkish Sign Language is attested both as labile alternation and classifier alternation, which is mostly compatible with previous accounts on this phenomenon in sign languages; however, Turkish Sign Language provides data that cannot be accounted for by Benedicto & Brentari’s (2004) account that directly links classifier handshapes and transitivity; (ii) both causative and inchoative clauses seem to have complex event structures; (iii) the structure of serial verb constructions seem to be of a mono-clausal nature; (iv) there seems to be no significant age of acquisition effects on preferring labile alternation or classifier alternation to mark the causativeinchoative alternation; yet (v) producing more complex clauses, i.e. serial verb constructions, appear to be an early acquisition group tendency. | |
| dc.format.extent | 30 cm. | |
| dc.format.pages | xviii, 129 leaves ; | |
| dc.identifier.other | LING 2020 K38 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://digitalarchive.library.bogazici.edu.tr/handle/123456789/15886 | |
| dc.publisher | Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2020. | |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Sign language -- Turkey. | |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Sign language -- Study and teaching -- Turkey. | |
| dc.title | The causative-inchoative alternation in Turkish Sign Language and the age-of-acquisition effects on complex clauses |
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