Island Constraints and Adjunct & Argument Asymmetry in Turkish
Due to the adjunct & argument asymmetry in Turkish, the interpretation of argument wh-words within island structures does not result in ungrammaticality while that of wh-adjuncts results in ungrammaticality (Özsoy 1996, Arslan 1999, Görgülü 2006, Çakır 2015). Yet, the following questions are sti...
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| description | Due to the adjunct & argument asymmetry in Turkish, the interpretation of argument wh-words within island structures does not result in ungrammaticality while that of wh-adjuncts results in ungrammaticality (Özsoy 1996, Arslan 1999, Görgülü 2006, Çakır 2015). Yet, the following questions are still unanswered: (1) When there are not any intervening islands in the interpretation of wh-words that originate in lower CPs, do we obtain the same results? (2) Is the observed different behavior of wh-elements a result of a more general adjunct-argument asymmetry that is indifferent to island effects? In the present study, the data were obtained through a Grammaticality Judgment Test containing 36 interrogative sentences from 435 participants. According to the results, the island constraints hold in Turkish, at least, for the sentence-level wh-adjuncts. However, it was also observed that there exists a general adjunct & argument asymmetry in Turkish which is valid for all complex sentences no matter they are subject to island effects or not. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-419f85ee958e496abd0a2faf32db64272025-08-20T02:43:03ZengDilbilim Derneği (The Linguistics Association)Dilbilim Araştırmaları Dergisi1300-85522587-09392016-12-0127211510.18492/dad.282138Island Constraints and Adjunct & Argument Asymmetry in TurkishSinan Çakır0Adıyaman UniversityDue to the adjunct & argument asymmetry in Turkish, the interpretation of argument wh-words within island structures does not result in ungrammaticality while that of wh-adjuncts results in ungrammaticality (Özsoy 1996, Arslan 1999, Görgülü 2006, Çakır 2015). Yet, the following questions are still unanswered: (1) When there are not any intervening islands in the interpretation of wh-words that originate in lower CPs, do we obtain the same results? (2) Is the observed different behavior of wh-elements a result of a more general adjunct-argument asymmetry that is indifferent to island effects? In the present study, the data were obtained through a Grammaticality Judgment Test containing 36 interrogative sentences from 435 participants. According to the results, the island constraints hold in Turkish, at least, for the sentence-level wh-adjuncts. However, it was also observed that there exists a general adjunct & argument asymmetry in Turkish which is valid for all complex sentences no matter they are subject to island effects or not.http://dad.boun.edu.tr/download/article-file/263959syntaxadjunct & argument asymmetryisland constraints |
| spellingShingle | Sinan Çakır Island Constraints and Adjunct & Argument Asymmetry in Turkish Dilbilim Araştırmaları Dergisi syntax adjunct & argument asymmetry island constraints |
| title | Island Constraints and Adjunct & Argument Asymmetry in Turkish |
| title_full | Island Constraints and Adjunct & Argument Asymmetry in Turkish |
| title_fullStr | Island Constraints and Adjunct & Argument Asymmetry in Turkish |
| title_full_unstemmed | Island Constraints and Adjunct & Argument Asymmetry in Turkish |
| title_short | Island Constraints and Adjunct & Argument Asymmetry in Turkish |
| title_sort | island constraints and adjunct argument asymmetry in turkish |
| topic | syntax adjunct & argument asymmetry island constraints |
| url | http://dad.boun.edu.tr/download/article-file/263959 |
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