A note on the compatibility of reflexive and causative in the Turkish verb

Zimmer, Karl

doi:10.1075/slcs.175.03zim

In:Exploring the Turkish Linguistic Landscape: Essays in honor of Eser Erguvanlı-Taylan
Edited by Mine Güven, Didar Akar, Balkız Öztürk and Meltem Kelepir
[Studies in Language Companion Series 175] 2016
► pp. 43–44

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A note on the compatibility of reflexive and causative in the Turkish verb

Karl Zimmer | University of California, Berkeley

Published online: 14 June 2016

https://doi.org/10.1075/slcs.175.03zim

The paper describes an acceptability study of the sequence reflexive + causative in the Turkish verb. A majority of subjects considered this sequence acceptable.

Keywords: causatives, reflexives, verbal morphology, voice morphology

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Underhill, Robert. 1976. Turkish Grammar. Cambridge MA: The MIT Press.

Zimmer, Karl. 1976. Some constraints on Turkish causativization. In The Grammar of Causative Constructions, Masatoshi Shibatani (ed.), 399-412. New York NY: Academic Press.