Converbs in heritage Turkish
- Turkish expresses adverbial subordination predominantly by means of converb clauses. These are headed by nonfinite verbs, i.e. converbs, which have a converb suffix attached to the stem. The different converbs express different aspectual relations between the subordinate and the superordinate clause, and they can be modifying or non-modifying. We analyse data from speakers of Turkish as a heritage language in Germany and the U.S. as well as monolingual speakers of Turkish in Turkey. The data come from two age groups: adults and adolescents. We show that unlike in canonical Turkish, converbs in heritage Turkish can be multifunctional, meaning that they can express both simultaneity and causality, for example. Furthermore, we show that converbs in heritage Turkish can be both modifying and non-modifying. As possible factors which might be responsible for such variation, we discuss language contact, sociolinguistic differences between the speaker communities (Germany vs. the U.S.) and age of the speakers.
Author details: | Kateryna IefremenkoORCiD, Christoph SchroederORCiDGND, Jaklin KornfiltORCiDGND |
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DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1017/S0332586521000160 |
ISSN: | 0332-5865 |
ISSN: | 1502-4717 |
Title of parent work (English): | Nordic journal of linguistics / publ. for The Nordic Association of Linguists |
Subtitle (English): | a contrastive approach |
Publisher: | Cambridge Univ. Press |
Place of publishing: | Cambridge |
Publication type: | Article |
Language: | English |
Date of first publication: | 2021/09/09 |
Publication year: | 2021 |
Release date: | 2023/12/11 |
Tag: | adverbial clauses; converbs; heritage Turkish; majority English; majority German |
Volume: | 44 |
Issue: | 2 |
Number of pages: | 25 |
First page: | 130 |
Last Page: | 154 |
Funding institution: | Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation)German Research Foundation (DFG) [313607803, FOR 2537] |
Organizational units: | Philosophische Fakultät / Institut für Germanistik |
DDC classification: | 4 Sprache / 40 Sprache / 400 Sprache |
4 Sprache / 49 Andere Sprachen / 490 Andere Sprachen | |
Peer review: | Referiert |
Publishing method: | Open Access / Hybrid Open-Access |
License (German): | CC-BY - Namensnennung 4.0 International |