Abstract
French and Turkish telic compounds offer interesting generalizations regarding their lexicalizations, which are accounted for here by the representations allowed by a Generative Lexicon, more specifically by a complex telic role. These representations also account for various syntactic properties associated with these compounds such as anaphoric reference or coercion, and for the concurrence between two forms of expression of the telic in Turkish.
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We thank our Turkish informants, E. Boton, A. Erturk, C. Hakiemez, I. Yildiz, for their help with the Turkish data. This work has also benefited from comments, and valuable suggestions from people to whom we are grateful: A. Birturk, M. Ciçek and A. Göksel. Many thanks too are due to J. Pustejovsky for his advice on a previous version of this paper. We remain responsible for the interpretation of facts given here and for any mistake.
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First, internal modification is impossible as shown by (43) and (44):
(43)
*şarap güzel bardağ-\( \i \)
(wine nice glass--i)
“*wine nice glass”
(44)
güzel şarap bardağ-\( \i \)
(nice wine glass -i)
“nice wine glass”
and second such constructions receive only one stress (on the head, which is the final word) contrary to syntactic constructions (phrases), in which both words are stressed.
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Internal modification is possible as indicated by (45) and (46):
(45)
recel-lik cilek
jam-lik strawberry
“strawberries for jam”
(46)
recel-lik tatl\( \i \) cilek
jam-lik sweet strawberry
“sweet strawberries for jam”
and the [N1-lik] part of the construction is a relational adjective.
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Bassac, C., Bouillon, P. (2013). The Telic Relationship in Compounds. In: Pustejovsky, J., Bouillon, P., Isahara, H., Kanzaki, K., Lee, C. (eds) Advances in Generative Lexicon Theory. Text, Speech and Language Technology, vol 46. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5189-7_5
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