Uzun, Nadir EnginChen, Chien Hsun2022-06-092022-06-092006http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12575/81501Chen, Chien-Hsun, Copular Sentences: Comparison of Turkish and Chinese inUniversal Grammar, Master?s Thesis, Advisor: Assoc. Prof. Nadir Engin Uzun, 86 p.There are a lot of works on copular sentences in last 30 years. Heggie (1987,1988) provides a unified theory of English copular structures. After Heggie,Heycock (1994), Rothstein (1995, 2001), Moro (1997), Heycock & Kroch (1997,1999), Löbel (2000), Partee (2000), Adger & Ramchand (2001), Mikkelsen (2004),Den Dikken (2006) are also provides a lot contribution to copular sentences.In this Dissertation we will investigate the copular sentences in Chinese andTurkish. Wang (1943), Chao (1968), Tang (1979), Li & Thompson (1982), Huang(1988) and Hsieh (1997, 2002) have given a lot of efforts on Chinese copularsentences. However, only Huang (1988) and Hsieh (1997) talk about the syntax ofcopular sentence. There are few works in Turkish copula sentences, we can find theworks from Konfilt (1997) and Uzun?s (2003, 2004).In this dissertation, our aim is to provide the syntax of copular sentences inChinese and Turkish.Keywords: Chinese, Turkish, copula, copular sentences, inversiontrDilbilimimasterThesis