Exploring the Turkish Linguistic Landscape: Essays in Honor of Eser Erguvanli-Taylan

222 Pages·2016·3.3 MB·Studies in Language Companion Series

by  Mine Güven, Didar Akar, Balkız Öztürk, Meltem Kelepir

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Exploring the
Turkish Linguistic
Landscape
Essays in honor of Eser Erguvanlı-Taylan
Edited by
Mine Güven
Didar Akar
Balkız Öztürk
Meltem Kelepir
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Exploring the Turkish Linguistic Landscape
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Exploring the Turkish Linguistic Landscape
Essays in honor of Eser Erguvanlı-Taylan
Edited by Mine Güven, Didar Akar, Balkız Öztürk and Meltem Kelepir
Exploring the
Turkish Linguistic Landscape
Essays in honor of Eser Erguvanlı-Taylan
Edited by
Mine Güven
Beykent University
Didar Akar
Balkız Öztürk
Meltem Kelepir
Boğaziçi University
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Table of contents
List of contributors ix
Eser E. Erguvanlı-Taylan: An explorer in uncharted fields of
Turkish linguistics xi
Prof. Eser Erguvanlı-Taylan’ s Publications xv
Part I. Phonology
Vowel epenthesis in the acquisition of English /s/-clusters by Turkish speakers 3
Mehmet Yavaş & Aslı Altan
Is there phonological vowel reduction in Turkish? 21
Markus A. Pöchtrager
Part II. Morphology & Syntax
A note on the compatibility of reflexive and causative in the Turkish verb 43
Karl Zimmer
Negative or not – the Case of -(y)AlI beri in Turkish 45
A. Sumru Özsoy
Greek and Turkish influences in the clausal complements of Cunda Turkish 57
Metin Bağrıaçık & Aslı Göksel
Clause combining in Turkish as a minority language in Germany 81
Christoph Schroeder
Part III. Discourse
Thinking for speaking and the construction of evidentiality in
language contact 105
Dan I. Slobin
Conditionals in Turkish: A classification based on function 121
Lütfiye Oktar & Özge Can
viii Exploring the Turkish Linguistic Landscape
Part IV. Language Acquisition
The interface of evidentials and epistemics in Turkish: Perspectives
from acquisition 143
Ayhan Aksu-Koç
Acquisition of morphophonemic alternations and the role of frequency 157
Mine Nakipoğlu, Aslı Üntak & Reyhan Furman
Different paces (but not different paths) in language acquisition 183
F. Nihan Ketrez
Index 201
List of contributors
Aslı Altan Okan International University/ [email protected]
Aslı Göksel Boğaziçi University/ [email protected]
Aslı Üntak Boğaziçi University/ [email protected]
Ayhan Aksu-Koç Boğaziçi University/ [email protected]
Ayşe Sumru Özsoy Boğaziçi University/ [email protected]
Christoph Schroeder University of Potsdam/ [email protected]
Dan I. Slobin UCLA Berkeley/ [email protected]
Fatma Nihan Ketrez İstanbul Bilgi University/ [email protected]
Karl Zimmer UCLA Berkeley/ [email protected]
Lütfiye Oktar İzmir Economics University/ [email protected]
Markus Pöchtrager Boğaziçi University/ [email protected]
Mehmet Yavaş Florida International University/ [email protected]
Metin Bağrıaçık Ghent University/ [email protected]
Mine Nakipoğlu Boğaziçi University/ [email protected]
Özge Can Dokuz Eylül University/ [email protected]
Reyhan Furman University of Alberta/ [email protected]