Full Description
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.
Contents
Contents
Preface
List of figures
List of tables
List of abbreviations
Ill-formedness markers
1 Introduction
1.1 The concept of demonstrative
1.2 Demonstratives in Japanese, Korean, and Turkish
1.3 Previous works on Turkish demonstratives
1.4 Overview of the book
2 Some aspects of bu, şu, and o
2.1 Exophoric use
2.2 Textual deictic use
2.3 Turkish demonstratives and definiteness
2.4 Repetition, controllability, and demonstrative use
2.5 Discourse deictic use
2.6 Syntactic distribution of the endophoric bu and o
3 Grammaticalization
3.1 Theoretical background
3.2 Exophoric usage > Non-anaphoric usage
3.3 Non-anaphoric usage > Anaphoric usage
3.4 Non-anaphoric usage > Sentence connectives
3.5 Anaphoric usage > Third person pronoun
3.6 Anaphoric usage > Demonstrative correlate
3.7 Some reflections on the process of grammaticalization
4 Conclusions
4.1 Main findings
4.2 Future research
Index
