Analysis of Three Complement-Taking Predicates in Spoken Turkish: <i>bil</i>, <i>san</i>, and <i>zannet</i>
This paper presents a corpus-based synchronic investigation of three Turkish mental–cognitive verbs in the present tense: <i>san</i> ‘guess, believe’ and <i>zannet</i> ‘suppose, assume’ (in the first person) and <i>bil</i> ‘know’ (in the second person), in spoken...
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MDPI AG
2025-01-01
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| Series: | Languages |
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| Online Access: | https://www.mdpi.com/2226-471X/10/2/27 |
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| Summary: | This paper presents a corpus-based synchronic investigation of three Turkish mental–cognitive verbs in the present tense: <i>san</i> ‘guess, believe’ and <i>zannet</i> ‘suppose, assume’ (in the first person) and <i>bil</i> ‘know’ (in the second person), in spoken discourse. These verbs, known as complement-taking predicates (CTPs), tend to appear without clausal complements in discourse and function as idiomatic units conveying epistemic modality. This paper characterizes the distribution of occurrences of the three predicates based on frequency to determine the extent to which usage frequency has led to routinization and greater autonomy for the CTPs under investigation, showing that the clause-medial variants deserve attention, as they clearly demonstrate the parenthetical behavior, autonomy, capacity to fulfill pragmatic functions, and projective force of foreshadowing new information of the predicates. |
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| ISSN: | 2226-471X |