Revisiting verbal reflexivity: On the morphosyntax and argument structure of IN derived verbs in Turkish

Autor/innen

Zeynep Erdemir
İstanbul Medeniyet Üniversitesi
https://orcid.org/0009-0000-5704-9444
Ümit Atlamaz
Boğaziçi University
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1657-9654
Ömer Demirok
Boğaziçi Üniversitesi
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2536-5247

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Zusammenfassung Im Türkischen werden verbale Reflexiva mit zwei verschiedenen Suffixen, -Il und -In, gebildet, wie in der Literatur beobachtet wird. Es wurde argumentiert, dass von diesen Verben diejenigen, die mit dem Suffix -Il abgeleitet sind, nur Figur-Reflexivität (figure reflexivity) ausdrücken; während Reflexiva, die mit dem Suffix -In abgeleitet sind, Grund-Reflexivität (ground reflexivity) ausdrücken (Key, 2021, 2025). Wir beobachten, dass das Suffix -In in zwei zusätzlichen Kontexten auftritt: (i) bei der Bildung von Figur-Reflexivität und (ii) in einigen unergativen Verben, die keine Reflexivität ausdrücken. Basierend auf diesen Beobachtungen schlagen wir vor, dass das Suffix -In im Wesentlichen eine Realisierung eines verbalen Kopfes ist, der keine Argumente einführt. Diese argumentlosen verbalen Köpfe entstehen im Kontext eines Kopfes, den wir Ref nennen und für den wir eine kontextuelle Allosemie vorschlagen.

Schlüsselwörter: verbale Reflexivität; Diathese (Genus Verbi); Türkisch.

Autor/innen-Biografien

Zeynep Erdemir, İstanbul Medeniyet Üniversitesi

Zeynep Erdemir graduated from the Department of Linguistics at Boğaziçi University. She is currently pursuing a master’s degree at the same university. She works as a research assistant at Istanbul Medeniyet University. 

Ümit Atlamaz, Boğaziçi University

Dr. Ümit Atlamaz is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Linguistics at Boğaziçi University. He earned his B.A. with High Honors in Foreign Language Education (with a minor in Linguistics) in 2009 and his M.A. in Linguistics in 2012, both from Boğaziçi University. He completed his Ph.D. in Linguistics at Rutgers University in 2019 with a dissertation titled "Agreement, Case, and Nominal Licensing," chaired by Mark C. Baker. Prior to his current academic appointment, he worked as a linguist and analytical linguist at Facebook and Google from 2018 to 2021. His primary research interests encompass morphosyntax (agreement, case, ergativity, differential object marking), semantics, and Natural Language Processing (ontologies, sentiment analysis, natural language inference)

Ömer Demirok, Boğaziçi Üniversitesi

Dr. Ömer Faruk Demirok is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Linguistics at Boğaziçi University. He currently serves as the Vice-Chair of the department (since 2022) and the Coordinator for Caucasian Languages (since 2021). He earned his B.A. in Foreign Language Education, alongside a Certificate in Linguistics, from Boğaziçi University in 2010, followed by an M.A. in Linguistics from the same institution in 2013. In 2019, he received his Ph.D. in Linguistics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) with his dissertation titled "Scope Theory Revisited: Lessons from pied-piping in wh-questions". His primary research interests lie at the intersection of morphosyntax (argument structure, case, agreement) and formal semantics (scope, intensionality, wh-semantics). His work focuses extensively on Turkish, South Caucasian languages, and endangered languages.

Veröffentlicht

December 31, 2025

Zitationsvorschlag

Erdemir, Z. ., Atlamaz, Ümit, & Demirok, Ömer. (2025). Revisiting verbal reflexivity: On the morphosyntax and argument structure of IN derived verbs in Turkish . In O. Çınar, F. Başbuğ, & H. Aydemir (Eds.), & (Ed.), Çağdaş Dilbilim Yazıları I (Vol. I, pp. 117-146). Artsurem Publishing. https://doi.org/10.7816/imuling-15-2025-01X006