Affectedness at the Morphosyntax-Semantics Interface

Download or read book Affectedness at the Morphosyntax-Semantics Interface written by Semra Kızılkaya and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2024-07-01 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The monograph explores the semantic and morphosyntactic representation of affectedness, i.e., the property of an event participant to undergo change, in transitive predicates. Specifically, it provides a first in-depth investigation of how affectedness, the notion of path, and resultativity determine Differential Object Marking (DOM) in Turkish. It argues that affectedness is the crucial event semantic characteristic enhancing DOM, and articulates a theoretical link between affectedness in the lexical syntactic structure and morphological accusative marking. The study addresses affectedness from a cross-linguistic perspective and makes a remarkable contribution to our understanding and modelling of the syntax-semantics interface.