15.3313, Diss: Semantics: Guven: Adverbials in Turkish: The Third

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Date: 25-Nov-2004
From: Mine Guven < guvenmi at boun.edu.tr >
Subject: Adverbials in Turkish: The Third Parameter in Aspectual Interpretation



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Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2004 16:24:29
From: Mine Guven < guvenmi at boun.edu.tr >
Subject: Adverbials in Turkish: The Third Parameter in Aspectual Interpretation



Program: Linguistics Program
Dissertation Status: Completed
Degree Date: 2004

Author: Mine Guven

Dissertation Title: Adverbials in Turkish: The Third Parameter in Aspectual
Interpretation

Linguistic Field(s): Semantics

Subject Language(s):
Turkish (Language Code: TRK)


Dissertation Director(s):
Eser Emine Erguvanli-Taylan

Dissertation Abstract:

The main argument of the dissertation is that temporal/aspectual (T/A)
adverbials in Turkish constitute the third parameter in aspectual
interpretation along with the other two parameters, namely situation type
and viewpoint aspect.

The Turkish data analyzed consist of non-clausal T/A adverbials co-
occurring with simple/complex morphological T/A forms and periphrases
in simplex declarative affirmative sentences.  Theoretically, the dissertation
is an attempt to bring together the insights of B. Comrie, C. Smith, W. Klein
and M. Krifka in providing an adequate account of Turkish facts.

The data illustrate that aspectual oppositions derive from (i) properties of
intervals, (ii) overlap vs. order relations between intervals, and (iii)
quantificational reference to objects and events.  It is further suggested that
boundedness is the prototypical property of aspect and that aspect is the
linguistic instantiation of boundedness, expressed by grammatical and
lexical means.  Grammatical expression of boundedness includes
viewpoints, special constructions and periphrastic forms.  Lexical means of
expression include situation types and T/A adverbials.  Situation types are
distinct from T/A adverbials in that they are compositionally expressed by
covert categories at the verb constellation level, which includes the verb
and its arguments.  In short, aspectual interpretation at sentence level is
illustrated to be a truly compositional expression of boundedness based on
the semantic information supplied by the three independent parameters.

The organization of the content chapters is as follows.  In the second
chapter, the theoretical assumptions of the study is made explicit through a
review of research on aspect.  In the third chapter, the time-relational
approach is tested as to whether or not it can adequately represent the
semantic distinctions denoted by simple and complex Turkish T/A
morphology and periphrastic expressions.  In the fourth chapter, the
expression of the perfective and the imperfective, and their extended
interpretations, namely perfect and prospective, is considered with respect
to Turkish.  Note that the latter two chapters deal with the first parameter,
i.e. viewpoint aspect, and the way it is expressed in Turkish.  In the fifth
chapter, the second parameter, i.e. situation type, and its interaction with
Turkish T/A morphology and adverbials is analyzed with special focus on
the notions of completion and change of state.  In the sixth chapter, a time-
relational analysis of T/A adverbials is proposed.  This proposal is an
attempt to account for the Turkish facts, making use of interval properties
and overlap relations, on which the time-relational approach is based.
Subsequently, it is argued that Turkish T/A adverbials constitute the third
parameter, based on the observation that Turkish is a language where
adverbials have as much weight as viewpoint aspect and situation type do
in aspectual interpretation.




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