The emergence of clausal nominalizations in Laz
Linguistic Variation, cilt.25, sa.2, ss.346-374, 2025 (ESCI, Scopus)
- Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
- Cilt numarası: 25 Sayı: 2
- Basım Tarihi: 2025
- Doi Numarası: 10.1075/lv.22045.dem
- Dergi Adı: Linguistic Variation
- Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI), Scopus, IBZ Online, Linguistic Bibliography, MLA - Modern Language Association Database
- Sayfa Sayıları: ss.346-374
- Anahtar Kelimeler: nominalization, contact, complementation, Laz, Turkish
- Boğaziçi Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet
Özet
This paper presents a survey of complementation strategies that are employed in Pazar and Ardesheni dialects of Laz, an endangered South Caucasian language that has been in contact with Turkish for decades. Our survey reveals strong signatures of contact in that nominalization patterns not present in cognate systems but present in Turkish seem to have been transferred into Laz. An intriguing asymmetry concerning the two dialects is that the Turkish noninalization pattern seems to have been directly copied into Pazar Laz whereas Ardesheni Laz seems to have developed a novel complementation pattern that mixes finite complementation with nominalization. Furthermore, in both dialects, complement clauses that denote propositions remain untouched by the dominant nominalization strategy in Turkish, raising questions on grammatical asymmetries in susceptibility to contact effects.