Agglutinative Information: A Study of Turkish Incomplete SentencesThis book analyses 'incomplete sentences' in languages that utilise distinctively agglutinative components in their morphology. In the grammars of the languages dealt with in this book, there are certain types of sentences which are variously referred to as 'elliptical sentences' (Turkish eksiltili cumleler), 'incomplete sentences' (Uzbek to'liqsiz gaplar), 'cutoff sentences' (Turkish kesik cumleler), etc., for which the grammarians provide elaborated semantic and syntactic analyses. The current work attempts to present an alternative approach for the analysis of such sentences. The distribution of morphemes in incomplete sentences is examined closely, based on which a system of analysis that can handle a variety of incomplete sentences in an integrated manner is proposed from a morphological point of view. The linguistic data are taken from Turkish, Uzbek, Japanese, and (Bukharan) Tajik. |
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Table of Contents | 13 |
Morphemebased System of Information Structure Analysis | 37 |
Prominence | 81 |
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accentuation according Accordingly action agglutinative languages agglutinative morphology agreement allosentences analysis answer appear applicability approach assigned associated assume attempt basis Bukharan Tajik called chapter cited claim considered consistent Constant constraints correlation correspondence defining definition despite discussion domains English example existence explained fact fall focus fusional grammar hence identifying importance indicative information structure intonation involves Japanese least lexical linguistic means meet mora morphemes morphology namely nature non-variables noun observed occurrence operation orthographic parameter parsing past patterns perception performer person phonetic phonological phrases pieces of information pitch pitch accent Positive possible pre-grammatical preceding present prominence prominence-variable proposed prosodic question reason refer regarding relation rise rule seems segmentability sentences shown single speakers specifies the value stress suffix suggests syllable syntactic taken talk tense term theories Turkish units utterance Uzbek variables verb writes