Demonstratives and grammaticalization: a perspective from modern Turkish

Demonstratives and Grammaticalization offers an in-depth analysis of the demonstrative system in Turkish. This book provides the first comprehensive analysis dealing with both the synchronic variations in Turkish demonstratives and their grammatical changes. It sheds light on the syntactic, semantic...

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Main Author: Balpınar, Metin (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London Routledge 2019
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Summary:Demonstratives and Grammaticalization offers an in-depth analysis of the demonstrative system in Turkish. This book provides the first comprehensive analysis dealing with both the synchronic variations in Turkish demonstratives and their grammatical changes. It sheds light on the syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic properties of the demonstratives, systematically describes the various usages of these forms, and provides a unified explanation for the various accounts of their distribution. While the focus is on Turkish, this analysis contributes to our understanding of how a demonstrative system operates in a language with a three-way distinction
Physical Description:1 online resource
ISBN:9780429025051
042902505X
9780429655890
0429655894
9780429658334
0429658338
9780429653452
042965345X

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