dc.contributor |
Graduate Program in Linguistics. |
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dc.contributor.advisor |
Guerzoni, Elena. |
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dc.contributor.author |
Filiz, Feyza. |
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dc.date.accessioned |
2023-03-16T11:43:46Z |
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dc.date.available |
2023-03-16T11:43:46Z |
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dc.date.issued |
2020. |
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dc.identifier.other |
LING 2020 F56 |
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dc.identifier.uri |
http://digitalarchive.boun.edu.tr/handle/123456789/15883 |
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dc.description.abstract |
The goal of the present dissertation is a semantic study of the Turkish expression Kimse and; specifically, a unified analysis of two apparently distinct Polarity Sensitive Items, namely Negative Polarity and Free Choice Kimse. I show that Kimse is a “Polarity Sensitive” (PS) item with a dual nature. Specifically, I observe that bare Kimse acts like a Negative Polarity Item (NPI) but Kimse preceded by the indefinite determiner Bir ‘a(n)’ is an existential Free Choice (∃-FC) Item. In his analysis of similar phenomena, Chierchia (2013) argues that NPIs and FCIs must belong to a linguistically uniform class and, for that matter, fairly widespread class and proposes a unified analysis of Free choice and Negative Polarity in a variety of Germanic and Romance languages as well as some Slavic ones, namely an Alternative and Exhaustification-based Approach (AEA henceforth). Extending this theory to the dual nature of Kimse, I provide additional support to the idea that Polarity Sensitivity and Free Choice phenomena are related. |
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dc.format.extent |
30 cm. |
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dc.publisher |
Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2020. |
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dc.subject.lcsh |
Pragmatics. |
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dc.subject.lcsh |
Turkish language -- Semantics. |
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dc.title |
Negative polarity Kimse and free choice Bir Kimse :|a unified semantic analysis |
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dc.format.pages |
xii, 122 leaves ; |
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