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

__Exploring the Turkish Linguistic Landscape__ provides in-depth analyses of different aspects of Turkish in the domains of phonology, morphology and syntax, discourse and language acquisition relevant to recent theoretical discussions. While some of the papers in the volume offer new analyses to known linguistic puzzles, others raise new questions which have not been addressed in the literature before. This collection of original articles written by colleagues and students of Prof. Eser Erguvanlı-Taylan, honoring her contribution to the field of linguistics, features articles on vowel reduction, consonant clusters, negation, conditionals, voice morphology, evidentiality, acquisition of irregular morphology, complementation and subordination in varieties of Turkish. It will be of interest to a wide audience ranging from theoreticians to typologists and is expected to generate further research on Turkish, as well as to contribute to the cross-linguistic literature on the issues addressed in the volume. SLCS 175 Exploring the Turkish Linguistic Landscape 2 Editorial page 3 Title page 4 LCC data 5 image of Eser Erguvanlı-Taylan 6 Table of contents 8 List of contributors 10 Eser E. Erguvanlı-Taylan 12 Prof. Eser Erguvanlı-Taylan’s Publications 16 Books 16 Book chapters 16 Journal Articles 17 Papers in Proceedings 18 Vowel epenthesis in the acquisition of English /s/-clusters by Turkish speakers 22 1. Introduction 22 1.1 /s/ clusters 23 2. Turkish 27 3. Research questions 28 4. The study 28 4.1 Participants 28 4.2 Procedure 29 4.2 Analysis 29 5. Results 29 6. Conclusions 34 References 35 Appendix 37 Is there phonological vowel reduction in Turkish? 40 1. Introduction 40 2. The Turkish facts 41 3. Vowel reduction and Government Phonology 43 4. Vural’s analysis and the problem of correct derivation 49 5. A syntactic fault line 52 6. Conclusions 55 References 56 A note on the compatibility of reflexive and causative in the Turkish verb* 62 References 63 Negative or not – the Case of -(y)AlI beri in Turkish 64 1. Introduction 64 2. Data 65 3. Previous analysis 66 4. Licensing conditions 67 4.1 Inception versus duration 68 4.2 Verb semantics 70 4.2.1 Deictic motion verbs 70 4.2.2 Verbs of inception 73 5. Conclusion 74 Acknowledgment 75 Reference 75 Greek and Turkish Influences in the Clausal Complements of Cunda Turkish 76 1. Introduction 76 1.1 Cunda and Cunda Cretans 77 1.2 Data 78 2. Complementation in CT 79 2.1 Non-finite complement clauses 79 2.2 Finite complement clauses 81 2.3 Preliminary analysis 82 3. Mood and complementation patterns in Greek and Turkish 83 3.1 Turkish 83 3.2 Cretan Greek 85 4. CT: Sorting out the Greek and Turkish elements 87 5. Conclusions 93 Acknowledgements 94 References 95 Clause combining in Turkish as a minority language in Germany* 100 1. Preliminary considerations 100 1.1 Register 100 1.2 Conceptual orality and literacy 101 1.3 Orate-literate in Turkish 102 2. Necdet’s texts 103 3. Alternative strategies in clause combining and the orate-literate distinction in Turkish 106 4. Turkish in Germany: Overview 108 5. Clause combining in Turkish in Germany and the Netherlands 109 6. An interim conclusion: Frequency shift and the orate-literate continuum 112 7. A case study: Causal clauses with çünkü 112 Anchor 124 116 8. Conclusion 116 Abbreviations 117 Reference 117 Thinking for speaking and the construction of evidentiality in language contact 124 1. Contact-induced change 124 2. Thinking for speaking 126 3. Evidentiality 128 4. Language contact in the Balkans and Anatolia 130 5. Language contact in the Andes 132 6. Recruitment of Perfect tenses to mark nonwitnessed evidentiality 134 7. Sociolinguistic factors in language contact 136 8. Conclusion 137 References 137 Conditionals in Turkish 140 1. Introduction 141 2. Turkish conditionals in the literature 141 3. Theoretical background: Declerck and Reed’s (2001) ‘Conditional Approach’ 144 4. Database and the analytical framework 146 5. Findings and discussion 148 5. Conclusion 156 References 157 List of the novels in the database 158 The interface of evidentials and epistemics in Turkish 162 1. Evidentiality and some controversies 162 2. Interface of evidentials and epistemics in Turkish: -mIş/-(y)mIş and -DIr 164 3. Relations between evidentials and epistemics: Evidence from acquisition 168 3.1 -mIş/-(y)mIş as a marker of new information and perspective of the self: Mirative function 168 3.2 -mIş/(y)mIş as a marker of mediated information and perspective of the other: Reportative function 169 3.3 -DIr as a marker of uncertainty: Epistemic speculation 170 3.4 -DIr as a marker of certainty: Generic function 171 3.5 Evidential and epistemic contrasts in summary 172 4. Conclusion 172 Reference 174 Acquisition of morphophonemic alternations and the role of frequency 176 1. Introduction 176 2. The issue 177 3. Design and method 180 3.1 Participants 180 3.2 Test Items 181 3.3 Procedure 182 4. Results 183 4.1 Errors in detail 184 5. Type/ token frequency and alternation rates of the stems ending in voiceless plosives 189 5.1 [k]-ending types and velar deletion 189 5.2 [p]-ending types and tokens I 190 5.3 [t]-ending types and tokens 191 5.4 [tʃ]-ending types and tokens 192 6. Discussion 193 8. Conclusion 199 References 200 Different paces (but not different paths) in language acquisition 202 1. Iregular alternations 202 2. Acquisition of irregularity 204 3. Twins vs. singletons 208 4. Challenges for twins 210 5. Method 211 6. Results 212 7. Possible implications 213 References 215 Index 220