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Phrasal compounds in Turkish: Distinguishing citations from quotations

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Abstract

To date, studies of phrasal compounds, most of which are on Germanic languages, have been inconclusive with respect to whether the non-heads are phrases or quotations. In this paper, I present syntactic, semantic, and prosodic evidence from a typologically different language, Turkish, to distinguish between the two types. I will show that what look like equally complex constructions turn out to differ radically in complexity and in terms of their internal structure; phrases that are sensitive to syntax versus quotations which are not, and head-complement relations versus type-token relations. I further discuss the structural implications of having phrasal units within morphological units, arguing that this is a natural phenomenon within frameworks where the relation between morphology and syntax is bidirectional.

Acknowledgments

This research has been supported by Boğaziçi University Research Fund, BAP 5842. I would like to thank Carola Trips and Jaklin Kornfilt for organizing a workshop where many interesting cross-linguistic and theoretical aspects of phrasal compounds were discussed and for giving me the opportunity to present my research. I am grateful to the audience at the workshop whose questions and comments improved my work, to Güliz Güneş, Aslı Gürer, Aysun Kunduracı, and three reviewers for their insightful comments, and to Gizem Tellioğlu for her technical assistance. Needless to say, I am the only person responsible for the present state of the paper and the outcome of these contributions.

Abbreviations

a

adjective

abil

abilitative

abl

ablative

acc

accusative

adj

adjective

ag

agentive

agr

agreement

aor

aorist

asp

aspect

ass

associative

aux

auxiliary verb

caus

causative

clp

classifier phrase

cm

compound marker

comp

complementizer

conj

conjunction

cop

copula

dat

dative

fcl

finite clause

fut

future

gen

genitive

hear

hearsay

imp

imperative

impf

imperfective

inf

infinitival

int

interrogative

loc

locative

lit

literally

lv

light verb

n

noun

nder

de-verbal noun forming derivational suffix

nec

necessitive

neg

negative

nm

nominalizer

nom

nominative

nonfcl

non-finite clause

nump

number phrase

part

participal

past

past tense

pl

plural

poss

possessive

sg

singular

tm

topic marker

v

verb

vder

de-nominal verb forming suffix

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