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Date: 11-Nov-2011
From: Demet Corcu Gül [demetc at mersin.edu.tr]
Subject: A Situational Semantic Analysis of Evidentiality:Turkish Evidentials


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Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2011 11:47:30
From: Demet Corcu Gül [demetc at mersin.edu.tr]
Subject: A Situational Semantic Analysis of Evidentiality:Turkish Evidentials

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Institution: Ankara University 
Program: Department of Linguistics 
Dissertation Status: Completed 
Degree Date: 2010 

Author: Demet Corcu Gül

Dissertation Title: A Situational Semantic Analysis of Evidentiality:Turkish
Evidentials 

Linguistic Field(s): Semantics
                     Typology

Subject Language(s): Turkish (tur)

Language Family(ies): Altaic


Dissertation Director(s):
Leyla Uzun

Dissertation Abstract:

Linguistic evidentiality is the category where the information source is
explicitly coded in the sentence. The main types of evidentials are direct
evidence (audio, visual, sensory) and indirect evidence (inferential,
reported, reasoning). Languages differ in how and which evidential types
they grammaticalize.
 
The study presented here suggests an empirical work on Turkish evidentials
which leads to a formal semantic approach to the category of evidentiality. 
The study involves the analysis of a series of surveys where native
speakers of Turkish are asked to identify the type of evidence coded in the
sentences, to identify the tense, aspect and modal values of particular
verbal suffixes, and to decide which verbal suffixes are used to code given
evidential value to the sentence. The three surveys are applied to 531
under-graduate students of Ankara University Faculty of Letters and of Gazi
University Faculty of Education.
 
The native-speaker test results show that Turkish grammatically
distinguishes between the direct and indirect evidentials. However,
contrary to the general categorization, our study claims that -DI is not
the only grammatical item to mark direct evidence. Our study puts forward
that, in Turkish, the one and only grammatical marker of evidentiality is
{mIş} with indirect evidential meaning, whereas any aspect marker, i.e.
{Iyor}, {DI}, and copula on nominal sentences, may indicate that the
speaker is presenting the information from his/her own conscious.
Furthermore, our study shows that the Turkish evidential marker {mIş} is
not used to mark assumptives, which supports the evidential definition by
Faller (2002). 

The results achieved from the native speaker tests are used to define the
evidential system of Turkish, which is followed by the formal semantic
analysis of grammatically coded evidential meanings. The formal semantic
analysis presented in the study depends on situation semantics proposed by
Barwise and Perry (1983). 





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