Turkish Causatives are Recursive
A Response to Key 2013
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11565254 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Y Nie (0000-0002-0985-4251, San Jose State University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 56 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 401-414 |
| Publication date | 2022-05-31 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Linguistic Inquiry (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0024-3892 • E-ISSN: 1530-9150 |
| Publisher | The MIT Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1162/ling_a_00472 |
| OpenAlex | W4281703204 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 22 |
It is claimed in Key 2013 that Turkish, despite allowing multiple causative morphemes on a single complex verb, does not in fact allow causative recursion, where one causing event is embedded by another causing event. This squib argues against Key’s conclusion, using evidence from eventhood diagnostics to show that “double” causatives in Turkish encode two distinct, syntactically represented causing events in addition to the caused event. Thus, Turkish causatives are indeed recursive. This finding supports approaches to productive affixal causatives that allow recursive embedding of the same category over approaches that rely on a fixed functional hierarchy
Biology · Causative · ENCODE · Event (particle physics · Event structure · Hierarchy · Key (lock · Linguistics · Morpheme · Political science · Programming language · Recursion (computer science · Turkish · Verb · Computer Science · Genetics · Linguistics and Discourse Analysis · Mathematics · Natural Language Processing Techniques · Philosophy · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
Word Meaning and Montague Grammar
Introducing Arguments
Verb Meaning and the Lexicon
Structuring Sense Volume 2
The Logical Form of Action Sentences
Severing the External Argument from its Verb
Voice and v
The different readings of wieder 'again'
The “second causative”
Deriving causation
Variable embedded agent in Sason Arabic
The function of have
On the Implicit Argument of Icelandic Indirect Causatives
Korean (and Japanese) Morphology from a Syntactic Perspective
External arguments and the Mirror Principle
The Shape of the Causative Verbal Domain
| Citations per year | 1.33 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2023 - 2026 (4) |
| Highly cited | No |