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In:Discourse Phenomena in Typological Perspective
Edited by Alessandra Barotto and Simone Mattiola
[Studies in Language Companion Series 227] 2023
► pp. 135–165

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Chapter 6
Connectivity of wh in bilingual Turkish

Developing a corpus-pragmatic filtering method

 | Adam Mickiewicz UniversityPoznań
 | Uppsala University
Published online: 1 March 2023
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https://doi.org/10.1075/slcs.227.06her
Abstract
This study tests a hypothesis regarding the connectivity of wh-constructions in spoken discourse data of Turkish-German bilingual children (the ENDFAS/SKOBI corpus), focusing on constructions involving one verbum dicendi: söyle‑ ‘say, tell, verbalise, utter’. It develops a corpus-pragmatic filtering method, based on typological parameters such as headedness and wh-fronting as well as spoken language phenomena related to syntactic and prosodic integration. These criteria are applied in a stepwise manner to identify a subset of findings with potential for grammatical innovation.
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Wh and connectivity
  • 3.Wh-constructions in our data
  • 4.Wh-constructions related to verba dicendi and sentiendi
    • 4.1Overall picture
    • 4.2Two verba dicendi: De‑ ‘say’ and söyle‑ ‘say, tell, verbalise, utter’
    • 4.3Distribution of de‑ ‘say’ and söyle‑ ‘say, tell, verbalise, utter’ in our data
    • 4.4Direct speech phenomena with söyle‑ ‘say, tell, verbalise, utter’ in the bilingual sample
  • 5.Juxtaposed finite wh-constructions in circumscribing function
    • 5.1Deixis
    • 5.2Utterance boundaries
    • 5.3Breaks
    • 5.4Preposed versus postposed wh‑construction
    • 5.5In-situ versus fronted wh‑element
    • 5.6Distribution of formal criteria across groups
  • 6.A closer look at the remaining candidates
  • 7.Preliminary results and desiderata
  • Notes
  • Abbreviations
  • References
  • Appendix
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