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Semantics of nouns and the specification of number in Turkish

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  1. Tez No: 400720
  2. Yazar: EMRAH GÖRGÜLÜ
  3. Danışmanlar: DR. NANCY HEDBERG
  4. Tez Türü: Doktora
  5. Konular: Türk Dili ve Edebiyatı, Turkish Language and Literature
  6. Anahtar Kelimeler: Noun semantics, the count-mass distinction, number specification, nominal typology, Turkish
  7. Yıl: 2012
  8. Dil: İngilizce
  9. Üniversite: Sımon Fraser Unıversıty
  10. Enstitü: Yurtdışı Enstitü
  11. Ana Bilim Dalı: Türk Dili ve Edebiyatı Ana Bilim Dalı
  12. Bilim Dalı: Belirtilmemiş.
  13. Sayfa Sayısı: Belirtilmemiş.

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Özet (Çeviri)

This thesis is an investigation of the semantic and morpho-syntactic properties of nouns and noun phrases in Turkish. Adopting a hybrid model of formal and lexical semantic views on noun semantics and nominal number as a theoretical basis, the primary objective of this work is to account for why nouns and noun phrases behave the way they do in the language. The arguments laid out in this work constitute an alternative to the claims that nouns in Turkish are no different from adjectives as they have the same distributional properties and are used interchangeably. Thus the current study aims to characterize the denotational and number related properties of nouns in a unified framework. The semantic as well as the morpho-syntactic characteristics of nouns in Turkish reveal the fact that nouns pattern with what is often referred to as set nouns as a nominal subtype within the broad typology of noun subcategories. The analysis also shows that certain grammatical elements that are generally regarded as typical number markers need to be reclassified as nominal aspect markers in the language. Moreover, a careful examination indicates that even though there is not much difference between nouns with respect to their morpho-syntactic distribution, it is also true that there are still some distinctions between nouns that should strongly suggests a count-mass distinction. Specifically, it is shown that the referential properties of NPs headed by set nouns and mass nouns are significantly different from one another in Turkish. The distinction is captured by proposing that there are in fact two processes that are relevant to number specification in Turkish, namely singularization which applies to NPs headed by set nouns and unitization that applies to NPs headed by mass nouns. Last but not least, the claim that languages with set nouns display number discord which occurs between plural subject NPs and verbs is also confirmed since cases of verbal number discord are found in Turkish as well. The conclusions not only show that number discord is correlated with the semantic/pragmatic parameters such as distinctness and topicality, but also provide further evidence for the classification of nouns in the language.

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