Balkız Öztürk
List of John Benjamins publications for which Balkız Öztürk plays a role.
Titles
Subjects Morphology | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Subjects Altaic languages | Theoretical linguistics
Subjects Altaic languages | Generative linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Articles
This study investigates two discourse-related particles, ya and şo, in Laz, an endangered South Caucasian language. We argue that both ya and şo are indexical shift complementizers which can occur without an overt embedding verb, suggesting root complementizer behavior. However, when they appear… read more | Chapter
Öztürk, Balkız and Ömer Eren. 2021.
Pazar Laz as a weak verb-framed language.
Into adpositions: New formal perspectives on the structure of the PP and its variation, Acedo-Matellán, Víctor, Theresa Biberauer, Jaume Mateu and Anna Pineda (eds.), pp. 247–279
Pazar Laz (pl) has a rich set of spatial prefixes, which encode path information as separate morphemes. However, unlike satellite-framed languages, pl spatial prefixes are incompatible with manner of motion verbs, which do not inherently encode path information, but they can only be used with… read more | Article
This study is dedicated to the Turkish discourse marker hani, which exhibits three kinds of use. It appears in interrogative sentences with a wh-question intonation. In these cases, the use of hani indicates that the context provides counter evidence for the belief /expectations of the speaker and… read more | Chapter
In Turkish plural pronoun constructions, plural pronouns can receive a singular interpretation, which constitutes a challenge for semantic compositionality. The question is whether this is due to the internal structure of plural pronouns, or whether the issue arises as a byproduct of the syntactic… read more | Chapter
This study investigates whether rightward movement can be an option for the derivation of postverbal constituents. By focusing on two lesser-studied members of the Altaic group, namely Uyghur and Khalkha, we will show that the derivation of postverbal constituents is not a cross-linguistically… read more | Article
Öztürk, Balkız. 2013.
Low, high and higher applicatives: Evidence from Pazar Laz.
Information Structure and Agreement, Camacho-Taboada, Victoria, Ángel L. Jiménez-Fernández, Javier Martín-González and Mariano Reyes-Tejedor (eds.), pp. 275–296
Pylkkänen (2002, 2008) proposes that cross-linguistically there are two types of applicative constructions: high applicatives selecting a VP as their complement and low applicatives requiring a DP in their complement position. In this study, we will show that Pazar Laz presents evidence for a third… read more | Article
This paper investigates free word order and argument drop in Turkish as the twoproperties typically associated with non-configurationality. We will argue thatthese properties follow from the lack of case-driven Agree in Turkish phrasestructure. That is, the case feature in Turkish is not located on… read more | Article
This study argues for a movement-free account of passivization in Turkish. It shows that unlike what is observed in English passives, neither case nor EPP can motivate movement in Turkish passives, since, first, TP and vP do not play a role in syntactic case-checking; and second, EPP feature is not… read more | Article
Öztürk, Balkız. 2001.
Turkish as a non-pro-drop language.
The Verb in Turkish, Taylan, Eser Erguvanlı (ed.), pp. 239–259
Article