The acquisition of discourse-pragmatic rules for null and overt first-person subjects by Greek learners of Turkish

dc.contributor.authorÇeltek, Aytaç
dc.date.accessioned2025-01-21T16:16:14Z
dc.date.available2025-01-21T16:16:14Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.departmentKırıkkale Üniversitesi
dc.description.abstractIn Turkish, null and overt arguments do not show the same distributional properties at discourse level. There arediscourse-pragmatic factors affecting this distribution (Kerslake, 1987; Ruhi, 1996; Turan, 1995; Çeltek & Oktar,2014; Çeltek Kaili, 2017). Previous studies suggest that the acquisition of argument realization system in secondlanguage (L2) poses a major acquisition problem for adult L2 learners, especially the properties that constrain thenative use of null and overt subjects at the syntax-discourse interface are reported to cause persistent difficulty.Based on this assumption, this study investigates this problematic area in L2 acquisition from a discoursepragmatic view. More specifically, the purpose of the present study is to inspect the acquisition of the followingdiscourse-pragmatic rules governing the use of null and overt first-person subjects in L2 Turkish oral narrativesproduced by first language Greek speakers: a) salient referent, b) switch focus, c) contrastive focus, d) pragmaticweight, e) epistemic parenthetical. The data were collected via three oral narrative tasks. The participants were 10advanced L2 Turkish learners and 10 native Turkish speakers. Results obtained from the three oral narrative tasksdemonstrate that advanced L2 learners of Turkish present practically no deficiency on the use of discoursepragmatic rules that govern the use of null and overt first-person subjects.© 2020 JLLS and the Authors - Published by JLLS.
dc.identifier.doi10.17263/jlls.759278
dc.identifier.endpage728
dc.identifier.issn1305-578X
dc.identifier.issue2
dc.identifier.startpage711
dc.identifier.trdizinid395082
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.17263/jlls.759278
dc.identifier.urihttps://search.trdizin.gov.tr/tr/yayin/detay/395082
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12587/22350
dc.identifier.volume16
dc.indekslendigikaynakTR-Dizin
dc.language.isoen
dc.relation.ispartofJournal of Language and Linguistic Studies
dc.relation.publicationcategoryMakale - Ulusal Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanı
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.snmzKA_20241229
dc.subjectDil ve Dil Bilim
dc.titleThe acquisition of discourse-pragmatic rules for null and overt first-person subjects by Greek learners of Turkish
dc.typeArticle

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