To browse Academia. This paper investigates the structure of pronominal participles in Turkish and their implications for the Lexical Integrity Hypothesis Anderson , Bresnan and Mchombo , Mohanan I will argue that the expression of grammatical functions in participles is constrained by the formal properties of word structure. This claim is based on the observation that in Turkish the participles of headless relative clauses pronominal participles have a fixed size.
Grammatical relations are then expressed within the space made available by conditions on word structure. Some interesting aspects of word structure emerge from this. One of these is that although morphological conditions determine the formal properties of words, the interpretation of word internal elements shows partial sensitivity to combinatorial ordering restrictions.
The data thus support the weaker version of the Lexical Integrity Hypothesis as discussed by Booij where syntactic mechanisms have access to word i The main aim of this paper is to describe as well as explain the different participial morphology found on the modifier clauses in Turkish relative clauses. This is a topic which has been widely discussed and debated in the field of studies in Turkish linguistics.
It is the latter enterprise which this paper attempts to address. While an account of the larger varieties of facts would be interesting and challenging, it would be too ambitious to attempt such an account here. The paper discusses the conditions for case marking on partitive constructions in direct object position in Turkish and some related languages. We focus on Turkish and then turn to some details of corresponding constructions in some other Turkic languages and in Standard Mongolian.
Turkish exhibits Differential Object Marking, which primarily depends on the semantic-pragmatic factor of specificity. Partitive constructions with the ablative for the superset in Turkish come in different forms, depending on how the subset expression is realized: a by a lexical noun as head, b by the classifier tane 'item', functioning as a "dummy noun", and c by a numeral, quantifier or adjective.
