The Function of Word Order in Turkish Grammar, Volumes 106 à 107

adam adverbial clause after-thought Ahmet Bey Ali-nin Ali-gen Ali-yi animate Ankara Ankara-dan aorist ari-yor Ayše backgrounded ban-a biz-e book-acc case-marking čojuk child čok constituent čünkü definite direct object diye dün embedded clause embedded sentences embedded Ss emphatic stress Erol example focus position gerunds girl-acc grammatical haril haril hizli fast I-dat ičin illustrate immediately preverbal position indefinite NPs indefinite reading indefinite subject intransitive verbs iš-i job-acc kabul kitab-i kitap kiz-i know-prog language main clause main verb manner adverb marked order marked word-order morpheme morphologically marked movement rules Murat negative verb neutral stress nominal non-referential non-specific non-verbal predicates oblique NPs occur oku-yor order in Turkish para-ya participial constructions post-predicate elements post-predicate position postposition postverbal pragmatic pragmatic function q.encl question read-prog reduplicated relative clauses restrictions returned from Ankara sentence-initial subject NP suffix sürpriz syntactic tani-yor topic position Turkish ungrammaticality unmarked stress utterance verbal noun we-dat word order word-order variation yesterday