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. 45–56
Negative or not – the Case of -(y)AlI beri in Turkish
Published online: 14 June 2016
https://doi.org/10.1075/slcs.175.04ozs
https://doi.org/10.1075/slcs.175.04ozs
This paper examines an anomaly in Turkish with respect to licensing the neg projection in the (postpositional) temporal adjunct clause -(y)AlI (beri) which expresses duration (Özsoy 2004, Arslan-Kechriotis 2006). The paper argues that any formalism that would account for negated constructions should take into consideration the interaction between tense, aspect, modality and negation as well as verbal semantics. It is only when this interaction is taken into consideration that the formalism will be able to account for the difference in the licensing of the affirmative -(y)AlI (beri) clause and its negative counterpart -mA-yAlI (beri) in a Turkish sentence.
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