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Negative polarity Kimse and free choice Bir Kimse :|a unified semantic analysis

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dc.contributor Graduate Program in Linguistics.
dc.contributor.advisor Guerzoni, Elena.
dc.contributor.author Filiz, Feyza.
dc.date.accessioned 2023-03-16T11:43:46Z
dc.date.available 2023-03-16T11:43:46Z
dc.date.issued 2020.
dc.identifier.other LING 2020 F56
dc.identifier.uri http://digitalarchive.boun.edu.tr/handle/123456789/15883
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.
dc.format.extent 30 cm.
dc.publisher Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2020.
dc.subject.lcsh Pragmatics.
dc.subject.lcsh Turkish language -- Semantics.
dc.title Negative polarity Kimse and free choice Bir Kimse :|a unified semantic analysis
dc.format.pages xii, 122 leaves ;


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