Türkçede belirleyici öbeği
Özet
This dissertation examines the validity of Determiner Phrase Hypothesis in Turkish. In this respect, the inner structure of NPs are described and how Noun Phrases project to the syntactic level in Turkish, a languge without an article system, is investigated.Furthermore, in line with the two conditions for argumenthood (case and referentiality assignment), it describes the referentiality assignment and the role of case morphemes in Turkish. At this point, it focuses especially on bare NPs in pre-verbal position and discusses whether they occupy argument positions or not. As a result, it finds out that these bare NPs do not occupy the argument positions, but they are inside of Verb Phrase and they are not referential at this position. From this result, it asserts that Turkish reflects the NP/DP distinction. Therefore, it is definite that Turkish has a DP projection above referential NPs. However, it states that in Turkish the head of this phrase is null, unlike in English.Moreover, since DPs encode number information and grammatical number is realized morphologically on nouns in Turkish, it claims that there is another functional projection called Number Phrase (NumP) above NPs. Besides, it draws the attention to the number Agreement between NPs and numbers/quantifiers, and it locates them in SpecNumP. Furthermore, it claims that there are some other functional categories; Quantifier Phrase (QP) in which the numbers and quantifiers are head, and Measure Phrase (MP) in which the amount-number encoding items like `tane, adet, salkım, etc.? occupies the head position.Besides, it adopts the Agreement Phrase (AgrP) analysis in possessive phrases, as stated in the literature. It is generally assumed that AgrP is the category where person-number Agreement projects to the level of syntax.