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Since Turkish has no definite article, the author claims that bir cannot be an indefinite determiner. While those analyses may be faulty, they do deserve discussion before the analysis is discarded. [...]the author herself assumes head-movement in clauses, i.e. raising of V to higher functional head...
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| Published in: | Journal of linguistics Vol. 43; no. 3; p. 736 |
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| Format: | Journal Article |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge
Cambridge University Press
01-11-2007
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| Summary: | Since Turkish has no definite article, the author claims that bir cannot be an indefinite determiner. While those analyses may be faulty, they do deserve discussion before the analysis is discarded. [...]the author herself assumes head-movement in clauses, i.e. raising of V to higher functional heads such as T - an assumption that is crucial for the book, as it offers motivation for the author's claim that all arguments in Turkish are equidistant to the predicate. [...]she claims that the empty subjects of certain adjunct clauses without local agreement are pro ; again, if such instances of pro are licensed without local agreement, then the overt agreement found with most other instances of pro is not needed for purposes of licensing and identification of pro . (7) The silent embedded subject is preferably interpreted as co-indexed with Mary (but can also be anteceded by a discourse referent). |
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| ISSN: | 0022-2267 1469-7742 |
| DOI: | 10.1017/S0022226707004859 |