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Complex clauses with embedded constituent interrogatives in Turkish Sign Language (TİD)

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dc.contributor Graduate Program in Linguistics.
dc.contributor.advisor Göksel, Aslı.
dc.contributor.advisor Kelepir, Meltem.
dc.contributor.author Hakgüder, Emre.
dc.date.accessioned 2023-03-16T11:43:39Z
dc.date.available 2023-03-16T11:43:39Z
dc.date.issued 2015.
dc.identifier.other LING 2015 H35
dc.identifier.uri http://digitalarchive.boun.edu.tr/handle/123456789/15855
dc.description.abstract The aim of this thesis is twofold: while presenting my observations on the syntax and prosody of clausal wh-complements in Turkish Sign Language (TİD), I discuss the implications of my findings to matrix interrogatives and the embedded information structure in TİD. First of all, I present evidence in favor of the presence of clausal wh-complements in TİD. Secondly, I present my data and observations on different grammatical patterns of matrix word order, and the properties of matrix subject pronoun copy with respect to ASK-type and KNOW-type verbs. Then, I show that TİD clausal wh-complements are significantly different from matrix wh-interrogatives in their distribution of wh-items. Building on this coupled with an observation on the spreading domain of BROW RAISE, I conjecture that the embedded context might only allow for wh-in-situ and that any other configuration in the surface might emerge due to information structural movement of constituents other than the wh-item. Moreover, I show that TİD distinguishes between the wh-complements of ASK-type and KNOW-type verbs with respect to their prosodic properties and quantification. The need to study clausal wh-complements in TİD lies in the fact that it is at the junction of interrogatives, complexity and reported speech. Several studies in these areas had already paved the way to this thesis. I hope my findings will shed some light upon the discussions and studies on interrogatives, complexity and reported speech and if on the right track pave the way to future research.
dc.format.extent 30 cm.
dc.publisher Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2015.
dc.subject.lcsh Sign language -- Turkey.
dc.title Complex clauses with embedded constituent interrogatives in Turkish Sign Language (TİD)
dc.format.pages xiii, 136 leaves ;


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