Turan, U. D.: 1995, `Null vs. Overt Subjects in Turkish Discourse: A Centering Analysis'. Ph.D. thesis, University of Pennsylvania.  Home/Search   Document Details and Download   Summary   Related Articles

....O i acele et meli ydi He hurry make NECESS PAST He had to hurry. In contrast to felicitious English glosses, discourse (4) is ungrammatical; use of overt pronouns in Turkish signals the introduction of (or shifting to) a new focus, topic (En c, 1986) or beginning of a new discourse segment (Turan, 1995). If the information structure is retained in the subsequent utterance, zero pronouns (denoted by ; in the examples) are used instead. Pronouns in (4) attempt to emphasize what is already set as the topic. The natural way to express this discourse is (5) 5) Okul a gid iyor du Murat i School DAT ....

....along the discourse segment. Since a center can be any semantic object in an utterance, there is a competition between potential centers (i.e. elements of C f (U n ) This competition is solved by ranking in C f (U n ) In (Grosz et al. 1995, p.214) the ranking is SUBJECT OBJECT(S) OTHER. Turan (1995, p.101) proposed a hierarchy based on thematic roles: AGENT EXPERIENCER (Inalienable) POSSESSOR THEME. t.tex; 18 11 1997; 14:53; no v. p.5 6 Ozgur Yuksel and Cem Bozsahin. DRAFT; November 1997 The relationships between the centers in consecutive utterances are called transitions. There ....

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Turan, U. D.: 1995, `Null vs. Overt Subjects in Turkish Discourse: A Centering Analysis'. Ph.D. thesis, University of Pennsylvania.

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