M.S. Candidate: Anıl Öğdül
Program: Cognitive Science
Date: 06.09.2024 / 15:30
Place: A-212

Abstract: This work investigates the meaning of the perfective/evidential suffix -mIş, focusing on its perfect interpretation. It has been argued that there are two distinct syntactic structures for simple verbal sentences [verb+past] and complex verbal sentences [verb+part+cop+past] (Kornfilt, 1996; Kelepir, 2001). Demirok and Sağ (2023) offer a compositional account for these two structures, taking the temporal relations as the basis. Building on that, we propose an Aktionsart-oriented analysis of the verb-participle relation. We offer a continuation-based compositional account within quantificational event semantics (Champollion, 2015) to reconcile the syntactic account of Kelepir (2001) and observations on the perfect meaning of -mIş.