An analysis about the discourse roles of the adverbialisers in Turkish

• Published in: Türkbilig Vol. 2019; no. 37; pp. 91 - 97
• Main Author: Gürkan,Duygu Özge
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Hacettepe Üniversitesi 2019
• Subjects: Edebiyat; Türk Dili; Ankara; Türkiye; Türkçe; discourse roles; belirteçleştirici; converb; adverbialiser; ulaç; söylem rolleri; Turkish
• ISSN: 1302-6011

The subordinated clauses with adverbial function in Turkish, in terms of
morphological, comprise of various case suffixes, particles or syntactic instruments and especially
converbs. These type of subordinate clauses establishing a modification relationship in
superordinate clause which appear by the help of aforesaid adverbialisers generally act as
adverb. In addition, these structures which function as conjunctive serve for the constituting
texts. The types of subordinated clauses with adverbial function which connected superordinate
clauses from this point of syntactic represent different relationship from this point of semantic
and thus alter the content of the superodinate clauses, from various aspects. For instance, in
text, converbs can be discourse connectives, and they can also act as determinant or adverb of a
predicate or an element inclusive to a predicate. Hereby, on the purpose of distinguishing these
different roles, by the help of the converbs as -(y)ArAk, -ken and some finite cliched verb
forms, selected for this study, Turkish adverbialisers are tried to examine about the discourse
roles also in syntactic platform.