Faruk Akkuș
List of John Benjamins publications for which Faruk Akkuș plays a role.
2024 No-Reversal Constraint and beyond: Word-internal language mixing in Anatolia Linguistic Variation: Online-First Articles | Article
This study investigates various un(der)studied word-internal language mixing patterns among Turkish, Anatolian Arabic and Northern Kurdish, in the context of both verbal and nominal domains. The examination of these patterns reveals various theoretical implications. First, head-directionality… read more
2018 Syntactic outcomes of contact in Sason Arabic Arabic in Contact, Manfredi, Stefano and Mauro Tosco (eds.), pp. 37–52 | Chapter
In this paper, we discuss a number of morphosyntactic properties of Sason Arabic, which could be strongly argued to be due to contact with the neighboring languages, some of which have head-final properties. We argue that Sason Arabic patterns with both its Arabic neighbors and the typologically… read more
2016 On NPIs and QPs in Sason Arabic Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XXVIII: Papers from the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, Gainesville, Florida, 2014, Haddad, Youssef A. and Eric Potsdam (eds.), pp. 107–128 | Article
This paper investigates co-occurrence restrictions between Negative Polarity Items (NPIs) and quantificational elements in Sason Arabic. Based on interpretational restrictions and scope properties of such structures, I show that the Immediate Scope Constraint applying at the level of LF is not… read more
2016 Clause structure in contact contexts: The case of Sason Arabic Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XXVIII: Papers from the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, Gainesville, Florida, 2014, Haddad, Youssef A. and Eric Potsdam (eds.), pp. 153–172 | Article
In this paper, we discuss the syntax of negation in Sason Arabic which patterns with both its Arabic neighbors, particularly the so-called Mesopotamian varieties (such as the Iraqi variety/varieties of Mosul) and the neighboring languages that are typologically different, particularly Kurdish and… read more