The Acquisition of Discourse-Pragmatic Rules for Null and Overt First-Person Subjects by Greek Learners of Turkish

• Published in: The journal of language and linguistic studies Vol. 16; no. 2; pp. 711 - 728
• Main Author: Çeltek, Aytaç
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies 01.01.2020
• Subjects: Adults; Comparative Analysis; Difficulty Level; Discourse Analysis; Epistemology; Foreign Countries; Form Classes (Languages); Greek; Native Language; Oral Language; Pragmatics; Second Language Learning; Sentence Structure; Syntax; Task Analysis; Turkish; Turkey

In Turkish, null and overt arguments do not show the same distributional properties at discourse level. There are discourse-pragmatic factors affecting this distribution (Kerslake, 1987; Ruhi, 1996; Turan, 1995; Çeltek & Oktar, 2014; Çeltek Kaili, 2017). Previous studies suggest that the acquisi...