REVISITING VERBAL REFLEXIVITY: ON THE MORPHOSYNTAX AND ARGUMENT STRUCTURE OF IN DERIVED VERBS IN TURKISH
REVISITING VERBAL REFLEXIVITY: ON THE MORPHOSYNTAX AND ARGUMENT STRUCTURE OF IN DERIVED VERBS IN TURKISH

Author(s): Zeynep ERDEMİR, Ümit ATLAMAZ, Ömer Demirok
Subject(s): Morphology, Syntax, Lexis, Historical Linguistics, Turkic languages
Published by: Artsürem Bilim Sanat Danışmanlık A.Ş (Artsürem Yayıncılık)
Keywords: Verbal reflexivity; Voice; Turkish;
Summary/Abstract: In Turkish, verbal reflexives are formed with two different suffixes, -Il and -In, as observed in the literature. It has been argued that of these verbs, those derived with the suffix -Il express only figure reflexivity; while reflexives derived with the suffix -In express ground reflexivity (Key, 2021, 2025). We observe that the -In suffix appears in two additional contexts: (i) in building figure reflexivity and (ii) in some unergative verbs that do not express any reflexivity. Based on these observations, we propose that the -In suffix is essentially a realization of a verbal head that does not introduce arguments. These non-argument-introducing verbal heads emerge within the context of a head, which we call Ref and propose to be subject to contextual allosemy.

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