Structural Parallelism in TP and DP: Case and Agreement in Azeri Turkish

• Main Authors: Morteza Mollavali, Yadgar Karimi, Gholamhossein Karimi Doostan, Vahid Gholami, Adel Dastghoshadeh
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: Persian
• Published: Alzahra University 2021
• Subjects: agree; azeri turkish; dp; possessor-possessed constructions; structural parallelism; Philology. Linguistics; P1-1091; Sakha
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.22051/jlr.2020.31620.1879; https://doaj.org/article/c4feb7c420f04c0aa08d7c19bdbb2828

The purpose of this paper is to provide a minimalist account of case and agreement within Azeri Turkish DPs. The DP-internal case and agreement in Azeri Turkish has direct bearing on the structural parallelism across syntactic projections of different categories.In comparison to TP-internal agreement, DP-internal agreement has been less studied due to the limited empirical domain in which the possessed-possessor agreement is attested cross-linguistically. However, in languages of the Finno-Ugric family, including Finnish and Hungarian, and the Turkic sub-family such Turkish and Sakha, agreement of the head noun with the possessor obtains in a robust fashion.Azeri Turkish, also called Azerbaijani, a language of the Oghuz branch of Turkic, spoken partly in Iran, displays possessed-possessor agreement within DPs: . References to the original article