Demonstratives and Grammaticalization

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Demonstratives and Grammaticalization

A Perspective from Modern Turkish

Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics Grammar, syntax and morphology Language teaching and learning

Author: Metin Balpinar

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Language: English

Published by: Routledge

Published on: 31st January 2019

Format: LCP-protected ePub

Size: 8 Mb

ISBN: 9780429655890


Demonstratives and Grammaticalization offers an in-depth analysis of the demonstrative system in Turkish.

This book provides the first comprehensive analysis dealing with both the synchronic variations in Turkish demonstratives and their grammatical changes. It sheds light on the syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic properties of the demonstratives, systematically describes the various usages of these forms, and provides a unified explanation for the various accounts of their distribution. While the focus is on Turkish, this analysis contributes to our understanding of how a demonstrative system operates in a language with a three-way distinction.

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