STUDIES IN TURKISH LINGUISTICS -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- INTRODUCTION -- THE TURKISH LANGUAGE -- ORGANIZATION OF THE BOOK -- Syntax -- Semantics and discourse -- Acquisition -- Acknowledgements -- REFERENCES -- TURKISH -- 1. History and Classification -- 2. Phonology and Orthography -- 2.1 Vowels -- 2.2 Consonants -- 2.3 Stress -- 3. Morphophonemics -- 3.1 Vowel Harmony -- 3.2 Other Morphophonemic Processes -- 4. Morphology -- 5. Syntax -- 6. Sources -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY OF MODERN LINGUISTIC WORK ON TURKISH -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- ABBREVIATIONS -- IMPERSONALPASSIVES AND THE -ArAk CONSTRUCTION IN TURKISH -- 0. Introduction -- 1. Background -- 1.1 The Two Proposals -- 1.2 The Unaccusative Hypothesis -- 1.3 Ungrammatical Impersonal Passives -- 1.4 Conclusions about Turkish Impersonal Passives -- 2. The -ArAk Construction -- 2.1 The Unaccusative Hypothesis and the -ArAk Construction -- 2.2 Impersonal Passives in -ArAk Constructions -- 2.3 A Further Problem -- 3. The Nature of the Turkish Impersonal Passive -- 3.1 A Proposal for Passives with Non-specific initial Subjects -- 3.2 The Nature of Passive II -- 3.3 The Effect on Grammatical Relations of the Passive II Rule -- 4. Conclusions -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- MONOCLAUSAL DOUBLEPASSIVES IN TURKISH -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Alternative Analysis -- 3. Three Pieces of Evidence Consistent With (10) -- 4. Relativization -- 5. Conclusion -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- LEXICAL CAUSATIVES IN TURKISH -- 1. Causative Formation -- 1.1 The Rule in Relational Grammar -- 1.2 The Lexical Rule -- 2. Lexical versus Syntactic Causative Formation: Tied Scores -- 2.1 Missing Subjects -- 2.2 Rule Interactions -- 2.2.1 Causative Formation and Object Incorporation -- 2.2.2 Causative Formation and Subject Incorporation -- 3. The Superiority of the Lexical Account.

3.1 Causative Formation and Passive -- 3.2 Causative Formation and Benefactive Advancement -- 4. Challenges for the Lexical Account -- 4.1 Benefactive Advancement -- 4.2 Direct Object Retreat -- 4.3 Control Rules -- 5. Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- NOTES -- THE UNMARKED SENTENTIAL SUBJECT CONSTRAINTIN TURKISH -- 0. Introduction -- 1. The Infinitive Sentential Subjects -- 2. Relativization out of Relative Clauses -- 2.1 A Syntactic Constraint -- 2.2 The Unmarked Sentential Subject Constraint -- 2.3 The Impersonal Passives -- 2.4 Subject Incorporation -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- HABITS AND ABILITIES IN TURKISH -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- DEFINITENESSAND REFERENTIALITY IN TURKISH VERBAL SENTENCES -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Strategies -- 2.1 Deictic Terms and Possessives -- 2.2 Word Order -- 2.3 Stress -- 2.4 Modality -- 2.5 Accusative Case Ending -- 3. Conclusion -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- DEFINITENESSAND REFERENTIALITYIN TURKISH NONVERBALSENTENCES -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Subject Noun Phrases -- 3. Predicate Noun Phrases -- 4. Concealed Existentials -- 5. Conclusion -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- TOPICSWITCHING AND PRONOMINAL SUBJECTS IN TURKISH -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Null Subjects and Pronominal Subjects in Turkish -- 3. Topic Change and Pronominal Subjects -- 4. Topic of Discourse -- 5. Topics as Propositions -- 6. Empathy and Topic -- 7. Other Topic Shift Devices -- 8. Turkish Pronouns and Contrast -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- PRONOMINAL VERSUSZERO REPRESENTATION OF ANAPHORA IN TURKISH -- 0. Introduction -- 1. The Pronoun System and Agreement in Turkish -- 2. Pronominal and Zero Representation of Anaphora -- 2.1 Zero Anaphora -- 2.2 Pronominal Anaphora -- 2.3 Free Variation of Pronominal and Zero Anaphora -- 3. The Role of Discourse Context -- 4. Some Concluding Remarks -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- SEMANTIC EFFECTS OF WORD ORDER IN COMPLEX SENTENCES.

Cognitive Verbs and Interrogatives -- Conclusion -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- THE ACQUISITION OF PAST REFERENCE IN TURKISH -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Tense, Aspect, and Mood Markers for Past Reference in Turkish -- 3. Analysis of the Data4 -- 4. Conclusions -- NOTES -- Acknowledgments: -- REFERENCES -- THE SIGNIFICANCE OF WORD ORDER IN THE ACQUISITIONOF TURKISH -- Word Order Restrictions Governed by Grammatical RelationsAdjectives and adverbs. -- Noun Phrases -- Question Words and Markers -- Variation of Word Order to Code Pragmatic Distinctions -- REFERENCES -- THE ACQUISITION AND USE OF RELATIVE CLAUSES IN TURKIC AND INDO-EUROPEAN LANGUAGES -- Isolability of Clauses -- Participial Forms -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- NAME INDEX -- SUBJECT INDEX.