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Demonstratives and Grammaticalization offers an in-depth analysis of the demonstrative system in Turkish.
This book provides the first comprehensive analysis dealing with both the synchronic variations in Turkish demonstratives and their grammatical changes. It sheds light on the syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic properties of the demonstratives, systematically describes the various usages of these forms, and provides a unified explanation for the various accounts of their distribution. While the focus is on Turkish, this analysis contributes to our understanding of how a demonstrative system operates in a language with a three-way distinction.
List of contents
Contents
Preface
List of figures
List of tables
List of abbreviations
Ill-formedness markers
1 Introduction
1.1 The concept of demonstrative
1.2 Demonstratives in Japanese, Korean, and Turkish
1.3 Previous works on Turkish demonstratives
1.4 Overview of the book
2 Some aspects of
bu, ¿u, and
o2.1 Exophoric use
2.2 Textual deictic use
2.3 Turkish demonstratives and definiteness
2.4 Repetition, controllability,
and demonstrative use
2.5 Discourse deictic use
2.6 Syntactic distribution of the endophoric
bu and
o3 Grammaticalization
3.1 Theoretical background
> Non-anaphoric usage
> Anaphoric usage
> Sentence connectives
> Third person pronoun
> Demonstrative correlate
3.7 Some reflections on the process of grammaticalization
4 Conclusions
4.1 Main findings
4.2 Future research
Index
About the author
Metin Balp¿nar is Assistant Professor in the Japanese Language and Literature Department at Mehmet Akif Ersoy University (Burdur, Turkey). He completed his MA in Japanese Language Education at Reitaku University (Chiba, Japan) and PhD in Linguistics at Okayama University (Okayama, Japan). His main research interests are Turkish and Japanese linguistics, with a special focus on demonstratives.
Summary
Demonstratives and Grammaticalization offers an in-depth analysis of the demonstrative system in Turkish. This book provides the first comprehensive analysis dealing with both the synchronic variations in Turkish demonstratives and their grammatical changes.
