Ümit Deniz Turan
List of John Benjamins publications for which Ümit Deniz Turan plays a role.
Articles
2012 Differential properties of three discourse connectives in Turkish: A corpus-based analysis of Fakat, Yoksa, Ayrıca Constraints in Discourse 3: Representing and inferring discourse structure, Benz, Anton, Manfred Stede and Peter Kühnlein (eds.), pp. 183–206 | Article
This paper presents a corpus-based quantitative investigation of three connectives in Turkish. As in D-LTAG, we take discourse connectives as lexical anchors which select their two arguments in discourse. Connectives can be grouped in two classes as structural connectives and discourse adverbials.… read more
2011 Context, contrast, and the structure of discourse in Turkish Context and Contexts: Parts meet whole?, Fetzer, Anita and Etsuko Oishi (eds.), pp. 147–168 | Article
This paper attempts to account for the contrastive discourse connective (tam) tersine (‘on the contrary’) in Turkish discourse. We suggest that this connective evokes a discourse structure which has at least three parts: the material in the prior linguistic context, its refutation, and then… read more