This book is a collection of articles on the properties of the verb in Turkish as the core element of clause structure, by linguists from different parts of the world. Articles present the most recent analyses on the Turkish language carried out in various theoretical orientations within the… read more
An inquiry into the person indexing system of Sauzini, a West-Iranian language spoken in certain villages in the western Black Sea region of Turkey, reveals two different paradigms of bound person marking in the language. One is subject agreement markers on predicates and the other non-subject… read more
The present study examines input–output relations in the emergence of verbal affixes that mark modal distinctions in Turkish, a morphologically rich language. Longitudinal naturalistic speech data were analyzed from two girls between ages 1;3–2;6 and their caregivers. Four stages of development… read more