Syntax of information structure in Turkish
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2004
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Mouton De Gruyter
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Özet
Three sentential positions have been ascribed a special status in the focus-background articulation of Turkish sentences. It has been argued that the sentence-initial, postverbal and immediately preverbal slots are three syntactic positions that are, respectively, allocated for topic, background and focus marking in Turkish. The analysis offered in this paper starts with a close examination of each of these positions in terms of the informational functions they are supposed to perform. It is shown that such a position-function mapping gives a noncomplete and noncorrect description of information structure in Turkish. The major claim made by this study is that Turkish does not employ any syntactic strategy to mark: the informational status of a sentence element; but some sentence elements may undergo a syntactic operation of detachment to clause-external positions to satisfy a certain informational requirement of the sentence itself.
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Linguistics
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Q4
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Q1
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42
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4
