Against DİYE clauses as complements of verbs of communication
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In this study, I discuss why some subordinate clauses that are marked by diye cannot be complement clauses contrary to expectation. These clauses include adverbial clauses of verbs of communication, verbs of perception, verbs of cognition, and verbs of emotion. Diye tends to occur very frequently both in formal language and colloquial language. Based on an exhaustive analysis of TS Corpus and METU Corpus, we observe that diyeis special in that (i) it occurs in complement clauses of verbs of cognition and verbs of emotion; (ii) it occurs in adverbial clauses denoting manner, reason, purpose / result, assumption, understanding, precaution, and agreement as well as in adverbial clauses denoting the content of the action denoted by the matrix verb for which either the complement of diye is an onomatopoeic form or the matrix verb is a verb of quotation (except for de- ‘say’) or the matrix verb is a verb of perception or cognition and its content is non-veridical, or the matrix verb is a verb of emotion; (iii) it creates constructions that can be likened to relative clauses. The important point in this division is that some of the subordinate clauses which occur with the verbs of quotation, verbs of perception and cognition, and verbs of cognition and are marked by diye are adverbials rather than complements contrary to expectation and we focus on this in this study.Throughout this study the instances of diye are examined. Passivization and causativization tests are presented in order to better understand the syntactic relationship between the matrix clause and the subordinate clause.
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