SOME LIMITATIONS ON THE CONTROLLABILITY OF THE REFERENT IN TURKISH DEMONSTRATIVES

Authors : Metin BALPINAR

Pages : 73-84

Doi:10.21563/sutad.855751

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Publication Date : 2019-12-19

Article Type : Research Paper

Abstract :More recent linguistic works on Turkish demonstratives have turned their attention to the concept of controllability which is one of the pragmatico-semantic parameters and which conditions the occurrence of the text-dependent insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(non-anaphoric); usages of bu and o in the verbal text. In this study, it is shown that Turkish has a phenomenon which cannot be purely explained in terms of this concept, and it is argued that insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(i); there are some limiting conditions determining the distribution of the non-anaphoric demonstratives other than this parameter in Turkish demonstrative use, insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(ii); the interchangeability between the antecedent noun and the co-referential noun is one of the crucial factors that are operative in the selection of the appropriate usages of the non-anaphoric bu and o, insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(iii); on the situation where the intended referent is within the controllable domain of the speaker, ‘bu’ is used to refer to it if the co-referential noun semantically contains the antecedent noun, and ‘o’ is used to refer to it if the antecedent noun contains the co-referential noun, insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(iv); on the situation where the referent is not within the controllable domain of the speaker, ‘o’ refers to it regardless of whether the co-referential noun semantically contains the antecedent noun or not, insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(v); time is a secondary factor conditioning whether the intended referent is within the controllable domain of the speaker or not.
Keywords : Turkish, demonstratives, the non anaphoric use, controllable domain, antecedent noun,