Demonstratives and Grammaticalization: A Perspective from Modern Turkish - Hardcover

by Metin Balpınar (Author)

Demonstratives and Grammaticalization offers an in-depth analysis of the demonstrative system in Turkish.

This book provides the first comprehensive analysis dealing with both the synchronic variations in Turkish demonstratives and their grammatical changes. It sheds light on the syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic properties of the demonstratives, systematically describes the various usages of these forms, and provides a unified explanation for the various accounts of their distribution. While the focus is on Turkish, this analysis contributes to our understanding of how a demonstrative system operates in a language with a three-way distinction.

Author Biography

Metin Balpınar is Assistant Professor in the Japanese Language and Literature Department at Mehmet Akif Ersoy University (Burdur, Turkey). He completed his MA in Japanese Language Education at Reitaku University (Chiba, Japan) and PhD in Linguistics at Okayama University (Okayama, Japan). His main research interests are Turkish and Japanese linguistics, with a special focus on demonstratives.