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University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics
Abstract
This paper proposes that internal arguments of verbs in Turkish do not uniformly occur in the complement position of the verb (contra e.g. Perlmutter 1978, 1989). We focus on syntactic positions of bare arguments in Turkish on the basis of aspectual (Aktionsart) properties of VPs (e.g. Vendler 1967) and prosodic structure. Looking at syntactic locations of low adverbs, we argue that bare internal arguments of Turkish achievements occur in SpecVP while those of accomplishments occur in the complement position of V.
Recommended Citation
Nagai, Miho and Özçelik, Öner
(2012)
"Syntactic Positions of Bare NPs in Turkish: Some Implications from Aspect and Prosody,"
University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics: Vol. 18
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https://repository.upenn.edu/pwpl/vol18/iss1/22