In:The Limits of Syntactic Variation
Edited by Theresa Biberauer
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today 132] 2008
► pp. 411–440
Non-configurationality: Free word order and argument drop in Turkish
Published online: 17 September 2008
https://doi.org/10.1075/la.132.18ozt
https://doi.org/10.1075/la.132.18ozt
This paper investigates free word order and argument drop in Turkish as the two
properties typically associated with non-configurationality. We will argue that
these properties follow from the lack of case-driven Agree in Turkish phrase
structure. That is, the case feature in Turkish is not located on the functional
heads T and v, but is available within the thematic domain. In languages like
English, on the other hand, given that case is provided by hierarchically ordered
functional projections, i.e., TP > vP, arguments forming case-chains with these
functional heads get represented within a hierarchical configuration. Lack of such
chain formation in Turkish is what creates the flat structure effect, which in turn
facilitates free word order and argument drop.
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