A continuation-based compositional account for syntax-semantics of Turkish perfective-evidential suffix -mIş

2024-9
Öğdül, Anıl
This work investigates the meaning of the perfective/evidential suffix-mIş, focusing on its perfect interpretation. It has been argued that there are two distinct syntactic structures for simple verbal sentences [verb+past] and complex verbal sentences [verb+part+cop+past] (Kornfilt, 1997; Kelepir, 2001). Demirok and Sağ (2023) offer a compositional account for these two structures, taking the temporal relations as the basis. Building on that, we propose an Aktionsart-oriented analysis of the verb-participle relation. We offer a continuation-based compositional account within quantificational event semantics (Champollion, 2015) to reconcile the syntactic account of Kelepir (2001) and observations on the perfect meaning of-mIş.
Citation Formats
A. Öğdül, “A continuation-based compositional account for syntax-semantics of Turkish perfective-evidential suffix -mIş,” M.S. - Master of Science, Middle East Technical University, 2024.