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turkish phonology and morphology (türkçe ses ve b‹ç‹mb‹lg‹s‹)

turkish phonology and morphology (türkçe ses ve b‹ç‹mb‹lg‹s‹)

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Fricati<strong>ve</strong>: Sound produced with partial obstruction so that<br />

G<br />

there is friction.<br />

Generic: A reference type which refers to a group rather than<br />

the specific members of that group: Kitap (generic) in<br />

kitap faydal›d›r as opposed to kitab› (definite) in kitab›<br />

faydal› buldum or bir kitap (indefinite) in bir kitap buldum.<br />

Geniti<strong>ve</strong>: A type of case which marks the “pos<strong>ses</strong>sor” by the<br />

suffix -(n)In: evin, araban›n.<br />

Genre: Types of discourse.<br />

Glottal: Sound produced at the glottis.<br />

Gradable adjecti<strong>ve</strong>: An adjecti<strong>ve</strong> that characterizes a property<br />

in varying degrees. Therefore, the negati<strong>ve</strong> of a gradable<br />

adjecti<strong>ve</strong> does not necessarily yield its opposite:<br />

s›cak; s›cak de¤il may imply not only the opposite so¤uk,<br />

but also ›l›k or serin.<br />

Gradable antonym: Gradable antonyms denote two opposite<br />

ends of a gradable or scalar dimension.<br />

Grammatical category: A category which marks a particular<br />

grammatical inflection that is associated with a particular<br />

word class: case <strong>and</strong> number as grammatical categories<br />

associated with nouns.<br />

Grammatical relation: The way a constituent of a sentence<br />

functions within a sentence. The most common grammatical<br />

relations are subject <strong>and</strong> object.<br />

Grammaticality: A syntactic unit, i.e. a phrase, clause or sentence<br />

that obeys the rules of grammar in a language <strong>and</strong><br />

used or interpreted as such by nati<strong>ve</strong> speakers.<br />

H<br />

Head parameter: The variation across languages related to<br />

the direction of the head in a phrase. The head can be<br />

at initial position, as in English, for the journey, where<br />

for is the head of PP. In Turkish the head is at final position,<br />

as in her fley için, where için is the head of PP.<br />

Head: The central element in a phrase. For example, the head<br />

of a NP is a noun.<br />

Hearsay: A type of modal meaning which indicates indirect<br />

(second-h<strong>and</strong>) evidence. It is also called reportati<strong>ve</strong>. For<br />

example, Demet gel-mifl implies that the speaker has<br />

heard that Demet has come; not that the e<strong>ve</strong>nt has not<br />

been witnessed by the speaker.<br />

Height: Height of the tongue body in the vocal tract.<br />

Glossary<br />

169<br />

Hypernym ( also known as superordinate): It is a word<br />

which is general <strong>and</strong> it includes the meaning of words<br />

with more specific meanings.<br />

Hyponym: A word whose meaning is included in the meaning<br />

of another word. For example, car, ship, bicycle, etc.<br />

are <strong>ve</strong>hicles <strong>and</strong> each is a hyponym of the word <strong>ve</strong>hicle.<br />

I<br />

Idiosyncratic property: Property that is not predictable.<br />

Illocutionary force: In speech-act theory, a speaker's intention<br />

in deli<strong>ve</strong>ring an utterance.<br />

Immediate constituent: The highest constituents of a syntactic<br />

unit. For example, SÆ NP VP; NP <strong>and</strong> VP are immediate<br />

constituents of S.<br />

Impersonal passi<strong>ve</strong>: A passi<strong>ve</strong> construction made from an<br />

intransiti<strong>ve</strong> <strong>ve</strong>rb: gidilir, a¤lan›r, düflülür, bo¤ulunur.<br />

Implicature: A result of a listener making an inference as the<br />

most likely meaning an utterance may ha<strong>ve</strong> in a gi<strong>ve</strong>n<br />

context.<br />

Indefinite pronoun: A pronoun that denotes someone or<br />

something with an unidentifiable. referent: herfley, biri,<br />

bir fley, herkes.<br />

Indirect evidence: Information that enables the speaker to<br />

make a deduction about the actuality of an e<strong>ve</strong>nt (also<br />

see Hearsay <strong>and</strong> Inferential).<br />

Indirect speech act: What is meant by a speaker's utterance<br />

that is not part of what is explicitly said.<br />

Inferential: A modal meaning which indicates indirect sensory<br />

(visual or auditory) evidence: Demet gel-mifl upon<br />

seeing Demet’s shoes on the mat (visual evidence) or<br />

upon hearing her talk in another room (auditory evidence).<br />

Note that the e<strong>ve</strong>nt has not been experienced<br />

directly by the speaker.<br />

Infiniti<strong>ve</strong>: The form of a <strong>ve</strong>rb that is not inflected for tense.<br />

Infix: A sound or group of sounds used within a word to<br />

change the meaning or function of that word: hakim<br />

from hüküm, tacir from tüccar.<br />

Inflectional morpheme: An affix that marks the grammatical<br />

class of word as noun, <strong>ve</strong>rb, adjecti<strong>ve</strong> etc.: the “plural”<br />

-lAr of kitaplar as a noun marker, the past tense -DI<br />

of geldi as a <strong>ve</strong>rb marker.<br />

Innate: A quality that is pre-determined by the genetic nature<br />

of an organism, equipped from birth rather than acquired<br />

through experience.<br />

Intensifier: An ad<strong>ve</strong>rbial that intensifies the meaning of the<br />

syntactic unit that it modifies.

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