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dc.contributor Graduate Program in Linguistics.
dc.contributor.advisor Özsoy, A. Sumru.
dc.contributor.author Arslan, Zekiye Ceyda.
dc.date.accessioned 2023-03-16T11:43:31Z
dc.date.available 2023-03-16T11:43:31Z
dc.date.issued 1999.
dc.identifier.other LING 1999 Ar7
dc.identifier.uri http://digitalarchive.boun.edu.tr/handle/123456789/15805
dc.description.abstract The aim of this study is to analyze and account for the syntactic properties of wh-structures in Turkish within the Government and Binding framework. Wh-constituents in a Turkish interrogative sentence occurs ttin situ", i.e. in the position where a non-question word with the same grammatical function would occur in the corresponding declarative structure. However, the fact that the wh-element can take the matrix scope without undergoing syntactic movement to clause initial position has led to the assumption that Turkish wh-structures undergo a movement rule at the level of Logical Form (Akar, 1990; Ozsoy, 1990). This study presents arguments for a non-raising analysis: of wh-structures in Turkish. It discusses that the LF wh-movement analysis fails to account for the occurrence of adjunct wh-elements within a sentential subject and a postpositional phrase, and further argues that the interpretation of scope interaction of quantifier phrases, wh-constituents and the operator yalnlZca tonly' is left unexplained. The explanation to these structures is offered along the lines of the wh-indexing analysis proposed by Aoun and Li (1993) who claim that wh-elements in situ do not undergo movement at any syntactic level, but instead, get coindexed with a Qu(estion) operator in the [Spec, CP] position of the clause they have scope over. The function of this Qu operator is to bind and provide an antecedent for the wh-element in situ which thus reflects its scopal properties.
dc.format.extent 30 cm.
dc.publisher Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute of Social Sciences, 1999.
dc.subject.lcsh Turkish language -- Grammar.
dc.subject.lcsh Turkish language -- Interrogative.
dc.title Approaches to wh-structures in Turkish
dc.format.pages viii, 94 leaves;


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