Turkish non-canonical objects
Özlem Çetinoğlu, Miriam Butt · 2008
In this work we analyze objects with non-canonical case markers in Turkish. We show that semantic factors give rise to non-canonical case marking and try to determine criteria to decide on the grammatical function status of non-canonical objects. We conclude that ablative partitives and dative objects participating in an affectedness alternation should be analyzed as straightforward objects (OBJ), but that lexically specified non-canonically case marked objects should be treated as OBJθ . Based on our analysis, we provide an LFG implementation as part of the Turkish ParGram grammar and show how this analysis provides just the right results for the data observed with respect to causativization, passivization and raising.