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In:Teachability and Learnability across Languages
Edited by Ragnar Arntzen, Gisela Håkansson, Arnstein Hjelde and Jörg-U. Keßler
[Processability Approaches to Language Acquisition Research & Teaching 6] 2019
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Chapter 10
The acquisition of Turkish (genitive-)possessive structures by adult Norwegian learners

ORCiD logo with link | University of Oslo | Statped
ORCiD logo with link | University of Oslo | Ufuk University
Published online: 6 June 2019
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https://doi.org/10.1075/palart.6.10hei
Abstract
This study investigates the development of phrasal and clausal (Genitive)-Possessive structures in L2 Turkish. The phrasal structures under scrutiny are possessive noun phrases and nominal phrases/compounds consisting of a bare noun and a following possessive noun. The clausal structures are subordinated noun clauses with verbal predicates nominalized through the -mA and -DIK suffixes. The data comprise translations and exam essays of Norwegian university students who received Turkish instruction at the University of Oslo across four semesters over two years. We provide a descriptive analysis of the target and non-target structures produced by these learners. This study may pave the way for a future Processability Theory analysis of these structures in the data from this particular group of L2 learners.
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Turkish at the University of Oslo
  • 3.Methodology-participants-data
  • 4.Linguistic structures
    • 4.1Phrasal structures: n_gen+n_poss and n+n_poss structures
    • 4.2Clausal structures: Noun clauses with -DIK and -mA
  • 5.PT
  • 6.Data coding and analysis
    • 6.1Phrasal structures
      • 6.1.1n+n_poss structures
      • 6.1.1n_gen+n_poss structures
    • 6.2Clausal structures: Noun clauses with -mA and -DIK
  • 7.Discussion and conclusions
    • 7.1Discussion of the results on phrasal structures
    • 7.2Discussion of the results on clausal structures
    • 7.3Comparison of the results for phrasal and clausal structures
  • 8.General discussion and further research
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes
  • References
  • Appendix
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