Assigning meaning to light verbs in Turkish

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ID20495403
AuthorsDuygu Sarısoy (0000-0002-1698-5479, Middle East Technical University), Gülten Ünal (0000-0003-1000-952X, Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt University), Isa Kerem Bayırlı (0000-0002-5413-1837, TOBB University of Economics and Technology)
Year2022
Volume33
Issue1
Pages1-27
Publication date2022-06-30
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueDilbilim Araştırmaları Dergisi (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1300-8552 • E-ISSN: 2587-0939
PublisherJournal of Linguistics Research (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.18492/dad.917075
OpenAlexW4283726276
LanguageEN
References cited7

Light verb constructions (e.g., give a kiss to somebody) syntactically reflect typical ditransitive structures (e.g., give a violin to somebody) yet it is not clear whether these two structures thematically similar as well. We tested Turkish-speaking adults on their construal of light verb constructions with respect to the number of thematic roles they perceive in the event structure in a rating study. The light verb give with a different noun phrase was used in all critical utterances (e.g., give a response or give an assignment). The noun phrases of these constructions denominalized either by -lA or -lAn+dIr morpheme (e.g., response-lA and assignment-lAn+dIr) were also used as control items. The study concluded that the light verbs with their noun phrase complements contribute to the semantic construal of the event structure and the thematic role assignment processes for the denominalized versions of these structures reflect this meaning construal

Construal level theory · Linguistics · Morpheme · Noun · Noun phrase · Phrase · Physics · Turkish · Verb · Communication · Computer Science · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation

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