An inquiry into the person indexing system of Sauzini, a West-Iranian language spoken in certain villages in the western Black Sea region of Turkey, reveals two different paradigms of bound person marking in the language. One is subject agreement markers on predicates and the other non-subject… read more
The present study examines input–output relations in the emergence of verbal affixes that mark modal distinctions in Turkish, a morphologically rich language. Longitudinal naturalistic speech data were analyzed from two girls between ages 1;3–2;6 and their caregivers. Four stages of development… read more