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The Turkish aorist and progressive: Present tense, future tense, or what?

Volume: 11 Number: 1 June 1, 2015
  • Mehmet Kanık
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The Turkish aorist and progressive: Present tense, future tense, or what?

Abstract

This paper investigates the uses of the aorist and the progressive tenses in spoken Turkish and the extent to which they are used interchangeably. Demo version of Spoken Turkish Corpus was analyzed using EXMARaLDA software. The tokens were divided into the categories of uses. Results indicate that there were a total of 206 tokens of the aorist and 628 occurrence of progressive tense. Assumptions and commitments are the most common uses and they account for the 56% of the uses of the aorist. These functions have indefinite future meaning. Three functions of the progressive, namely progressive (event), progressive (state) and repetitive/habitual, on the other hand, account for 96% of all its uses. Of these, repetitive/habitual is used 19.26% of the times. When interchangeable functions are considered, analysis revealed that 76% of them are expressed in the progressive tense. Results have implications for curriculum and materials development and teaching practices.

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English

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Mehmet Kanık This is me

Publication Date

June 1, 2015

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June 1, 2015

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Year 2015 Volume: 11 Number: 1

APA
Kanık, M. (2015). The Turkish aorist and progressive: Present tense, future tense, or what? Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 11(1), 103-115. https://izlik.org/JA58CW67UD
AMA
1.Kanık M. The Turkish aorist and progressive: Present tense, future tense, or what? Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies. 2015;11(1):103-115. https://izlik.org/JA58CW67UD
Chicago
Kanık, Mehmet. 2015. “The Turkish Aorist and Progressive: Present Tense, Future Tense, or What?”. Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies 11 (1): 103-15. https://izlik.org/JA58CW67UD.
EndNote
Kanık M (June 1, 2015) The Turkish aorist and progressive: Present tense, future tense, or what? Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies 11 1 103–115.
IEEE
[1]M. Kanık, “The Turkish aorist and progressive: Present tense, future tense, or what?”, Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, vol. 11, no. 1, pp. 103–115, June 2015, [Online]. Available: https://izlik.org/JA58CW67UD
ISNAD
Kanık, Mehmet. “The Turkish Aorist and Progressive: Present Tense, Future Tense, or What?”. Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies 11/1 (June 1, 2015): 103-115. https://izlik.org/JA58CW67UD.
JAMA
1.Kanık M. The Turkish aorist and progressive: Present tense, future tense, or what? Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies. 2015;11:103–115.
MLA
Kanık, Mehmet. “The Turkish Aorist and Progressive: Present Tense, Future Tense, or What?”. Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, vol. 11, no. 1, June 2015, pp. 103-15, https://izlik.org/JA58CW67UD.
Vancouver
1.Mehmet Kanık. The Turkish aorist and progressive: Present tense, future tense, or what? Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies [Internet]. 2015 Jun. 1;11(1):103-15. Available from: https://izlik.org/JA58CW67UD