Contents

Preface

List of the proceedings of the first eight international conferences on Turkish linguistics

PHONOLOGY AND PHONETICS On non-final in Turkish simplex words M. Cem (fakir

To be or not to be faithful Meltem Kelepir

Acoustic analysis of voicing contrast in Turkish stops Handan Kopkalli-Yavuz

Palatal synharmonism in the of South Siberia Irina Selyutina

STRESS IN WORDS, COMPOUNDS AND PHRASES (Workshop) Cem (fakir (see and Phonetics) Marcel Erdal (see )

MORPHOLOGY On some fusional features in Turkish Armin Bassarak

Clitics in Turkish Marcel Erdal

THE INTERACTION OF MORPHOLOGY AND WITH PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO VALENCY AND ARGUMENT STRUCTURE (Workshop) F. Nihan Ketrez (see Language Acquisition)

Changing argument structure without morphology: A concrete view Jaklin Kornfilt and Gerald Greenberg Detransitivizing passives Murat Kural

On the aspectual properties of unaccusatives Mine Nakipoglu

(Are there really) Four operations for four affixes (?) Hitay Yiikseker

SYNTACTIC CATEGORIES The noun/adjective distinction in Turkish: An empirical approach Friederike Braun and Geoffrey Haig

Piti piti karamela sepeti or how to choose your own in Turkish Mireille Tremblay and Hitay Yiikseker

COMPOUNDS, POSSESSIVE AND GENITIVE CONSTRUCTIONS Marked and unmarked genitive constructions in 16th century Ottoman documents Claudia Romer

Higher Order Compounds in Turkish: Some observations Gerjan van Schaaik

ASPECT AND MODALITY Specifier position of Functional Phrases in Turkish Giil§at Aygen-Tosun

Semi-grammaticalized modality in Turkish Eser Erguvanh -Taylan

The finite &o/- in Noghay and its functional equivalents in Turkish Birsel Karakog

Analytic modal constructions in Gagauz Astrid Menz LINKAGE AND EMBEDDED Clause linkage in Iraqi Turkmen Christiane Bulut

Clause linkage strategies in Turkish Fatma Erkman-Akerson

Copied relative constructions in Khalaj Filiz Kiral

Locating relative in Turkish and Turkic Jaklin Kornfilt

Some formal types of Turkic relative clause equivalents Claus Schdnig

Attribution in Turkish and the function of -ki Christoph Schroeder

WORD ORDER Is there a focus position in Turkish? Asli Goksel and A. Sumru Ozsoy

Dative marking in Gagauz Yuu Kuribayashi

REFERENCE Reflexivisation in Anatolian Turkish Mevlut Erdem

PSYCHOLINGUISTICS Manner of movement in monolingual and bilingual adult narratives: Turkish vs. English §eyda Ozgali§kan and Dan I. Slobin

Differences in spatial conceptualization in Turkish and English discourse: Evidence from both speech and gesture Ash Ozyiirek viii

LANGUAGE ACQUISITION Head parameter setting in the acquisition of Turkish as a first language 275 F. Ozden Ekmekgi & Cent Can

What does a child have to acquire when acquiring passive? 283 F. Nihan Ketrez

Children's preferences in early phonological acquisition: How does it reflect sensitivity to the ambient language? 291 Handan Kopkalli-Yavuz and Seyhun Topba§

Children's acquisition of negation: Turkish evidence 299 Paivi Koskinen

Production of relative clauses in the acquisition of Turkish: The role of parallel function hypothesis 307 F. Hiilya Ozcan

LANGUAGE CONTACT Development of Turkish clause linkage in the narrative texts of Turkish-French bilingual children in France 317 Mehmet-Ali Akinci and Harriet Jisa

Grammatical properties of Turkish and Dutch possessive constructions 325 Norbert Corver, Ineke van de Croats and Roeland van Hout

How to get rid of the Turkish morphological system: The problem of Turkish L2 learners 335 Ineke van de Croats

Turkish relative clauses: Are they vulnerable to loss in language contact situations? Kutlay Yagmur

THE ROLE OF YAPMAK, ETMEK AND OLMAK IN DIASPORA TURKISH (Panel) Delexicalised verbs in Turkish from a corpus perspective Petek Kurtboke Development and use of et- and yap- by Turkish/German bilingual children Carol W. Pfaff

DISCOURSE ANALYSIS Politeness and the use of Estagfurullah Ann Bayraktaroglu

Cross-cultural speech act realisation: The case of requests in the Turkish speech of Turkish monolingual and Turkish-German bilingual speakers Leyla Marti

Yani, i§te, §ey, ya: interactional markers of Turkish Nurdan Ozbek

COMPUTATIONAL APPLICATIONS The spoken Karaim CD: sound, text, and "Active morphology" for language learning multimedia David Nathan

LINGUISTIC EVIDENCE FROM PERIPHERAL TURKIC LANGUAGES (Panel) A syntactic asymmetry in Turkish Eva Agnes Csato

Consonantalization and Obfuscation Arienne Dwyer

Lexical copying in Turkic: The case of Eynu Tooru Hayasi

Author index