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Variability in the realization of agreement in Turkish

A morphotactic account

Abstract

Subject agreement in Turkish usually appears verb-finally. However, in certain cases agreement may appear non-finally. Furthermore, in certain dialects, and in colloquial speech, agreement may appear both finally and non-finally, yielding doubling. Previous accounts do not consider double agreement, and therefore are explanatorily inadequate. This paper proposes an account in which medial agreement is derived via reduplicating a string of morphemes that includes agreement, followed by deletion of some of the duplicate or original morphemes. While medial agreement involves reduplication plus deletion of one of the occurrences of agreement, I claim that double agreement involves reduplication but without deletion of the base or the reduplicant of agreement. My account is an adapted version of the morphological metathesis accounts that were proposed for double agreement in Spanish (see Mare 2018 for an overview).

Abstract

Subject agreement in Turkish usually appears verb-finally. However, in certain cases agreement may appear non-finally. Furthermore, in certain dialects, and in colloquial speech, agreement may appear both finally and non-finally, yielding doubling. Previous accounts do not consider double agreement, and therefore are explanatorily inadequate. This paper proposes an account in which medial agreement is derived via reduplicating a string of morphemes that includes agreement, followed by deletion of some of the duplicate or original morphemes. While medial agreement involves reduplication plus deletion of one of the occurrences of agreement, I claim that double agreement involves reduplication but without deletion of the base or the reduplicant of agreement. My account is an adapted version of the morphological metathesis accounts that were proposed for double agreement in Spanish (see Mare 2018 for an overview).

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Introduction: In honor of Aslı Göksel 1
  4. Part I. Within boundaries
  5. Abstraction vs. analogy in the Turkish aorist 13
  6. Word formation through derivation vs. compounding 39
  7. Part II. Across boundaries
  8. Restrictive relative clauses in the Greek dialects of Pharasa and Cappadocia 63
  9. Person indexing in Sauzini 93
  10. Subject marking of - DIK/-(y)AcAK complement clauses in written Turkish of the late Ottoman period (1860–1914) 121
  11. Structure of plural pronoun constructions 155
  12. Part III. Across boundaries
  13. Paradigm leveling and regularization derive variation in stress 193
  14. The great divide 211
  15. Variability in the realization of agreement in Turkish 235
  16. Same exponent, different strength 263
  17. Morphosyntax-prosody mismatches in Karachay-Balkar 285
  18. Part IV. Morphological complexity in Sign Languages
  19. Aspects of clause structure and morphology in Turkish Sign Language 315
  20. The universal quantifier ‘all’ in Turkish Sign Language 353
  21. Null arguments in Turkish Sign Language 385
  22. Index 419
Morphological Complexity within and across Boundaries
This chapter is in the book Morphological Complexity within and across Boundaries
https://doi.org/10.1075/slcs.215.09gun

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Introduction: In honor of Aslı Göksel 1
  4. Part I. Within boundaries
  5. Abstraction vs. analogy in the Turkish aorist 13
  6. Word formation through derivation vs. compounding 39
  7. Part II. Across boundaries
  8. Restrictive relative clauses in the Greek dialects of Pharasa and Cappadocia 63
  9. Person indexing in Sauzini 93
  10. Subject marking of - DIK/-(y)AcAK complement clauses in written Turkish of the late Ottoman period (1860–1914) 121
  11. Structure of plural pronoun constructions 155
  12. Part III. Across boundaries
  13. Paradigm leveling and regularization derive variation in stress 193
  14. The great divide 211
  15. Variability in the realization of agreement in Turkish 235
  16. Same exponent, different strength 263
  17. Morphosyntax-prosody mismatches in Karachay-Balkar 285
  18. Part IV. Morphological complexity in Sign Languages
  19. Aspects of clause structure and morphology in Turkish Sign Language 315
  20. The universal quantifier ‘all’ in Turkish Sign Language 353
  21. Null arguments in Turkish Sign Language 385
  22. Index 419
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