Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11851/9033
Title: Assigning meaning to light verbs in Turkish
Other Titles: Türkçede katkısız eylemlere anlam atanması
Authors: Özge D.
Ünal G.
Bayirli I.K.
Keywords: interpretation of light verbs
light verbs
thematic roles
Turkish
Publisher: Bogazici University Press
Abstract: Light verb constructions (e.g., give a kiss to somebody) syntactically reflect typical ditransitive structures (e.g., give a violin to somebody) yet it is not clear whether these two structures thematically similar as well. We tested Turkish-speaking adults on their construal of light verb constructions with respect to the number of thematic roles1 they perceive in the event structure in a rating study. The light verb give with a different noun phrase was used in all critical utterances (e.g., give a response or give an assignment). The noun phrases of these constructions denominalized either by-lA or-lAn+dIr morpheme (e.g., response-lA and assignment-lAn+dIr) were also used as control items. The study concluded that the light verbs with their noun phrase complements contribute to the semantic construal of the event structure and the thematic role assignment processes for the denominalized versions of these structures reflect this meaning construal. © 2022 Boğaziçi Üniversitesi Yayınevi, İstanbul.
URI: https://doi.org/10.18492/dad.917075
https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11851/9033
ISSN: 1300-8552
Appears in Collections:Scopus İndeksli Yayınlar Koleksiyonu / Scopus Indexed Publications Collection
TR Dizin İndeksli Yayınlar / TR Dizin Indexed Publications Collection
Türk Dili ve Edebiyatı Bölümü / Department of Turkish Language & Literature

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