25.2628, Qs: Turkish nom-acc case-marking optionality

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Subject: 25.2628, Qs: Turkish nom-acc case-marking optionality

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Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2014 11:58:09
From: Becky Chu [bchu at u.rochester.edu]
Subject: Turkish nom-acc case-marking optionality

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Hello Linguists,

I just recently read a paper about the dependent accusative case-
marking of object nouns in Turkish language, and I found it 
particularly interesting because I was informed that Turkish 
case-marking is always present and not optional. Yet, Dr. 
Kilicaslan's 2006 paper (A situation-theoretical approach to case 
marking semantics in Turkish) suggests otherwise. 

I intend to conduct some language-learning research evaluating 
transfer effects of case-marking and planned to use Turkish 
because we thought its case-marking system was non-optional. For 
my experiment that seeks to investigate the role of L1 knowledge 
on learning case in a new L2, we need to have a qualitative 
estimate of the informativity of case-marking in simple 
transitive sentences. That is, we are curious to know a) how 
often themes in simple transitive sentences are case-marked 
(leaving pronouns aside) and b) how often that case-marking is 
unambiguous (i.e. there is no case-syncretism with the nominative 
marker).

I am very curious and would appreciate if you would kindly reply 
to these questions. Any pointers you could provide in this 
direction would be much appreciated. Thank you! 

Linguistic Field(s): Syntax

Subject Language(s): Turkish (tur)






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