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Chapter 6. Ezafe as a linking feature within DP

  • Songül Gündoğdu and Betul Erbasi
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Advances in Iranian Linguistics II
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Abstract

Studies on Ezafe demonstrate that it displays considerable cross-linguistic variation, making it difficult to propose a unified analysis. Our goal is to achieve such unification by investigating the properties of Ezafe in two typologically different languages; Northern Kurdish/Kurmanji Kurdish (Iranian) and Turkish (Turkic). Taking Ezafe as a linking feature that marks dependency between the head and the non-head elements within the nominal domain, we propose that the variation can be explained with the head directionality of the language and the phase domain where the head noun lands in/remains. This allows us to account for data that were problematic for previous accounts and to extend the range of data to languages (specifically, Turkish) that have not been analyzed as Ezafe languages before.

Abstract

Studies on Ezafe demonstrate that it displays considerable cross-linguistic variation, making it difficult to propose a unified analysis. Our goal is to achieve such unification by investigating the properties of Ezafe in two typologically different languages; Northern Kurdish/Kurmanji Kurdish (Iranian) and Turkish (Turkic). Taking Ezafe as a linking feature that marks dependency between the head and the non-head elements within the nominal domain, we propose that the variation can be explained with the head directionality of the language and the phase domain where the head noun lands in/remains. This allows us to account for data that were problematic for previous accounts and to extend the range of data to languages (specifically, Turkish) that have not been analyzed as Ezafe languages before.

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Introduction 1
  4. Chapter 1. Anaphoric potential of pseudo-incorporated bare objects in Persian 12
  5. Chapter 2. Persian quantifiers and their scope 44
  6. Chapter 3. Why-stripping in Persian 81
  7. Chapter 4. Middle Persian Ezafe 100
  8. Chapter 5. Ezafe and the article 130
  9. Chapter 6. Ezafe as a linking feature within DP 154
  10. Chapter 7. Mood selection in complement clauses in Persian 180
  11. Chapter 8. Three types of verb stem levelling in Tat 210
  12. Chapter 9. A null stem analysis of Persian copular verbs 231
  13. Chapter 10. Semi-anticausatives 263
  14. Chapter 11. The nature and licensing of hi:tʃ elements in Persian 282
  15. Language index 307
  16. Name index 309
  17. Subject index 313
https://doi.org/10.1075/cilt.361.06gun

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Introduction 1
  4. Chapter 1. Anaphoric potential of pseudo-incorporated bare objects in Persian 12
  5. Chapter 2. Persian quantifiers and their scope 44
  6. Chapter 3. Why-stripping in Persian 81
  7. Chapter 4. Middle Persian Ezafe 100
  8. Chapter 5. Ezafe and the article 130
  9. Chapter 6. Ezafe as a linking feature within DP 154
  10. Chapter 7. Mood selection in complement clauses in Persian 180
  11. Chapter 8. Three types of verb stem levelling in Tat 210
  12. Chapter 9. A null stem analysis of Persian copular verbs 231
  13. Chapter 10. Semi-anticausatives 263
  14. Chapter 11. The nature and licensing of hi:tʃ elements in Persian 282
  15. Language index 307
  16. Name index 309
  17. Subject index 313
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