Appositive ki Clauses in Turkish

This study explores the post-nominal appositives formed with the so called complementizer ki in Turkish. It makes two sets of arguments: (i) Post-nominal appositives formed with ki do not form a constituent with their antecedents in syntax, instead they are formed as separate clauses, having their o...

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Main Author: Hasan Mesut Meral
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Dilbilim Derneği (The Linguistics Association) 2018-12-01
Series:Dilbilim Araştırmaları Dergisi
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Online Access:http://dad.boun.edu.tr/issue/38322/309847
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description This study explores the post-nominal appositives formed with the so called complementizer ki in Turkish. It makes two sets of arguments: (i) Post-nominal appositives formed with ki do not form a constituent with their antecedents in syntax, instead they are formed as separate clauses, having their own illocutionary act and being opaque to syntactic operations of their host clauses, hence non-integrated in the sense of Cinque (2008), (ii) Appositive ki clauses involve neither subordination, nor coordination, rather they are ForcePs adjoining to the root clause, and this root level adjunction is characterized as concatenation without labels in the sense of Horstein (2009) and Citko (2016).
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spelling doaj-art-0dc4adb3cf134f05a0c56bddf4be50f72025-01-02T20:40:38ZengDilbilim Derneği (The Linguistics Association)Dilbilim Araştırmaları Dergisi1300-85522587-09392018-12-01292120Appositive ki Clauses in TurkishHasan Mesut MeralThis study explores the post-nominal appositives formed with the so called complementizer ki in Turkish. It makes two sets of arguments: (i) Post-nominal appositives formed with ki do not form a constituent with their antecedents in syntax, instead they are formed as separate clauses, having their own illocutionary act and being opaque to syntactic operations of their host clauses, hence non-integrated in the sense of Cinque (2008), (ii) Appositive ki clauses involve neither subordination, nor coordination, rather they are ForcePs adjoining to the root clause, and this root level adjunction is characterized as concatenation without labels in the sense of Horstein (2009) and Citko (2016).http://dad.boun.edu.tr/issue/38322/309847appositiveki clausesrelative clauseturkish
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Appositive ki Clauses in Turkish
Dilbilim Araştırmaları Dergisi
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turkish
title Appositive ki Clauses in Turkish
title_full Appositive ki Clauses in Turkish
title_fullStr Appositive ki Clauses in Turkish
title_full_unstemmed Appositive ki Clauses in Turkish
title_short Appositive ki Clauses in Turkish
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turkish
url http://dad.boun.edu.tr/issue/38322/309847
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