Open AccessUnorthodox Agreement in Turkish Copular Sentences
Author(s) -
Seyyit Talha Bedir
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
proceedings of the workshop on turkic and languages in contact with turkic
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2641-3485
DOI - 10.3765/ptu.v6i1.5058
Subject(s) - agreement , predicate (mathematical logic) , turkish , spotting , subject (documents) , linguistics , feature (linguistics) , argument (complex analysis) , computer science , psychology , artificial intelligence , natural language processing , mathematics , speech recognition , philosophy , programming language , medicine , library science
Turkish verbs agree with the subject in almost all cases. The same goes for the copular adjectival or nominal structures. However, if a nominal predicate is 2nd or 1st person whereas the subject is 3rd person the agreement, the agreement takes place with the predicate instead of the subject. Some features had been proposed in order to account for the different behavior of the persons, most famous of which being Harley & Ritter’s (2002) three-way feature system. I will try to develop an economical argument using solely one feature: [ref]. It correctly explains some phenomena that previous feature-dependent accounts come short explaining. I will mostly build up on work of Ince & Aygen & Aydın (2015), spotting problems in their proposal and offering solutions.