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On copular clitic forms in Turkish

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ID19513337
AuthorsJaklin Kornfilt (0000-0003-0166-0628, NortonLifeLock (United States), corresponding author)
Year1996
Volume6
Pages96-114
Publication date1996-10-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueZAS Papers in Linguistics (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1435-9588 • E-ISSN: 1435-9588
PublisherUniversity Library J. C. Senckenberg (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.21248/zaspil.6.1996.762
OpenAlexW4410294352
LanguageEN
Citations received7

This paper argues for a novel classification of the morphology in a canonical agglutinative language, namely Turkish, in some respects. I argue here that what has traditionally been described as true agglutination is actually due to cliticization. While true agglutination exists as well, it is distinct from cliticization. I look here at verbs exclusively and discuss cliticized forms of the inflected copula as well as some other clitics that attach to verbs at cliticization sites. If the analysis proposed here is correct, Turkish has only two genuinely verbal simple finite forms: the definite past and the conditional. All other tense-aspect-mood inflections are actually inflections of the copula and not of the main verb

Clitic · Linguistics · Turkish · Educational Methods and Analysis · History · Lexicography and Language Studies · Linguistics and Cultural Studies · Philosophy

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