Türkçe'deki Ayrık Geçişsiz Eylemlerin Olay Yapısal Bir İncelemesi

This paper investigates the behavior of split intransitives in the -ArAk construction, an unaccusative diagnostic first proposed by Özkaragöz (1980) and argues that sentences containing the -ArAk suffix convey different meanings based on their having unaccusatives or unergatives in both the embedded and the matrix clauses. In particular, I argue that ifa sentence has unaccusative verbs in both of its clauses, it exhibits a consecutive action reading, if it has unergative verbs, however, it exhibits a simultaneous action reading. To account for what motivates these different readings, I develop an event structural analysis which proposes that the delimited/nondelimited nature of the intransitive of the main clause determines whether a sentence conveys a consecutive action or a simultaneous action reading.