Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. Turkish 7
5. Bibliography of Modern Linguistic Work on Turkish 23
6. Impersonal Passives and the ArAk Construction in Turkish 53
7. Monoclausal Double Passives in Turkish 77
8. Lexical Causatives in Turkish 93
9. The Unmarked Sentential Subject Constraint in Turkish 123
10. Habits and Abilities in Turkish 137
11. Definiteness and Referentiality in Turkish Verbal Sentences 147
12. Definiteness and Referentiality in Turkish Nonverbal Sentences 165
13. Topic Switching and Pronominal Subjects in Turkish 195
14. Pronominal versus Zero Representation of Anaphora in Turkish 209
15. Semantic Effects of Word Order in Complex Sentences 233
16. The Acquisition of Past Reference in Turkish 247
17. The Significance of Word Order in the Acquisition of Turkish 265
18. The acquisition and use of Relative Clauses in Turkic and Indo-European Languages 273
19. Name Index 295
20. Subject Index 299