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Deriving Comparatives, Deadjectival Verbs and (Irregular) Causatives in Turkish

TABAK, Ömer and Pavel CAHA

Basic information

Original name

Deriving Comparatives, Deadjectival Verbs and (Irregular) Causatives in Turkish

Authors

TABAK, Ömer and Pavel CAHA

Edition

22nd International Conference on Turkish Linguistics, Izmir, 4.-6.9. 2025, 2025

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Presentations at conferences

Country of publisher

Turkey

Confidentiality degree

is not subject to a state or trade secret

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Organization

Filozofická fakulta – Repository – Repository

Keywords in English

ABA; semantic maps; degree morphology; deadjectival verbs

Links

CZ.02.01.01/00/23_025/0008726, interní kód Repo. EH23_025/0008726, research and development project.
Changed: 9/9/2025 00:50, RNDr. Daniel Jakubík

Abstract

In the original language

In Turkish, there are at least three different morphological classes of roots regarding the forms of the adjective and the related verbs. Class 1 shows an invariant root, e.g. kısa, the comparative marker daha, the inchoative suffix -l and the causative -t. Classes 2 and 3 have adjectives ending with -k. These have been argued to be bimophemic, taking the consonant to be a separate functional head (Atlamaz and Dikmen2024, Turk 2020). Interestingly, this consonant disappears in the verbal forms both in Class 2 and 3. This is unexpected in view of the proposal by Bobaljik (2012), who proposes that deadjectival verbs build on the comparative, which embeds the (positive-degree) adjective. Class 2 and 3 differ in the morphology of the causative, where Class 3 lacks not only the adjectival -k, but also any verbalizing morphology. We show how Nanosyntax handles the puzzle of the unexpectedly disappearing markers, using the idea of phrasal lexicalization.
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