Incorporating agents
Lingua, cilt.119, sa.2, ss.334-358, 2009 (SSCI, Scopus)
- Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
- Cilt numarası: 119 Sayı: 2
- Basım Tarihi: 2009
- Doi Numarası: 10.1016/j.lingua.2007.10.018
- Dergi Adı: Lingua
- Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Scopus
- Sayfa Sayıları: ss.334-358
- Anahtar Kelimeler: Pseudo-incorporation, Head-incorporation, Agent incorporation, Turkish
- Boğaziçi Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet
Özet
This study examines agent incorporation, which is a highly productive phenomenon observed in transitive and unergative constructions in Turkish. We account for this piece of data through a pseudo-incorporation analysis which unifies both theme and agent incorporation under the same structure unlike the previous head-incorporation analyses. We suggest that as pseudo-incorporation does not involve head nouns but NPs, it is exempt from the constraints that govern head-movement and the choice of theta-roles for incorporated heads under head-incorporation, and thus it is technically compatible with the incorporation of any argument, including agents. © 2007 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.