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Reina, Javier Caro and Akar, Isik (2021). The development of the apostrophe with proper names in Turkish. Z. Sprachwiss., 40 (3). S. 371 - 401. BERLIN: DE GRUYTER MOUTON. ISSN 1613-3706

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Abstract

In modern Turkish, the apostrophe is used to separate proper names from inflectional endings (Izmir'de 'in Izmir'). This is not the case with inflected common nouns (sehirde 'in the city'). In this respect, the apostrophe constitutes an instance of graphematic dissociation between proper names and common nouns. Interestingly, the apostrophe was originally employed to transliterate hamza and ayn in Arabic and Persian loanwords (san'at 'art'). However, these loanwords gradually lost the apostrophe (sanat 'art'). This implies that Turkish experienced a graphematic change whereby the apostrophe developed from a phonographic marker of glottal stop into a morphographic marker of morpheme boundaries in proper names. This refunctionalization process is illustrated by a diachronic corpus analysis based on selected issues of the newspaper Cumhuriyet from 1929-1975. The findings reveal that the use of the apostrophe with proper names was triggered by foreignness. More specifically, the apostrophe first occurred with foreign names to highlight morpheme boundaries (Eden'in 'of Eden') and then expanded to native names via animacy (Dogan'in 'of Dogan').

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Reina, Javier Caro UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Akar, Isik UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-567245
DOI:	10.1515/zfs-2021-2036
Journal or Publication Title:	Z. Sprachwiss.
Volume:	40
Number:	3
Page Range:	S. 371 - 401
Date:	2021
Publisher:	DE GRUYTER MOUTON
Place of Publication:	BERLIN
ISSN:	1613-3706
Language:	English
Faculty:	Unspecified
Divisions:	Unspecified
Subjects:	no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language GERMAN Multiple languages Linguistics; Language & Linguistics Multiple languages
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/56724