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An analysis about the discourse roles of the adverbialisers in Turkish

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Abstract

The subordinated clauses with adverbial function in Turkish, in terms of morphological, comprise of various case suffixes, particles or syntactic instruments and especially converbs. These type of subordinate clauses establishing a modification relationship in superordinate clause which appear by the help of aforesaid adverbialisers generally act as adverb. In addition, these structures which function as conjunctive serve for the constituting texts. The types of subordinated clauses with adverbial function which connected superordinate clauses from this point of syntactic represent different relationship from this point of semantic and thus alter the content of the superodinate clauses, from various aspects. For instance, in text, converbs can be discourse connectives, and they can also act as determinant or adverb of a predicate or an element inclusive to a predicate. Hereby, on the purpose of distinguishing these different roles, by the help of the converbs as -(y)ArAk, -ken and some finite cliched verb forms, selected for this study, Turkish adverbialisers are tried to examine about the discourse roles also in syntactic platform.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)91-97
Number of pages7
JournalTurkbilig
Volume37
Publication statusPublished - 2019

Keywords

  • Adverbialiser
  • Converb
  • Discourse roles
  • Turkish

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