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Affected-Agent Verbs in Turkish
Greg Key
176-185 (complete paper or proceedings contents)

Abstract

The Turkish verbal suffix -(I)n marks canonical reflexives (giy-in- 'get dressed,' soy-un- 'get undressed') as well as self-benefactives and verbs of emotive behavior (ed-in- 'acquire,' yak-ın- 'complain'). The latter two categories of affected-agent verbs bear no consistent relation to a simplex verb in terms of argument structure or thematic relations, and several are inherent reflexives for which no corresponding simplex verb exists. Similar phenomena are found in a variety of other languages. It is proposed that -(I)n spells out the head of an Applicative phrase that introduces one of three roles: location, beneficiary, or experiencer. The Applicative head, lacking a {D} feature, cannot saturate the applied role, so it is assigned to the subject by Delayed Gratification (Wood 2014, Myler 2016).

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Proceedings of the 39th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics
edited by Robert Autry, Gabriela de la Cruz, Luis A. Irizarry Figueroa, Kristina Mihajlovic, Tianyi Ni, Ryan Smith, and Heidi Harley
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