Year: 2021
Type: article
Abstract: It is well documented that the notion ‘necessity’ in Cypriot Turkish is shaped by means of the lexical unit lazïm ‘need/necessary’ and both the voluntative markers as well as the optative marker, illustrated as . The following paper, presenting collected data from natural conversations takes however, another look at the formation under discussion. It is attested that the use of is far more extensive. Focusing on both contextual as well as emotional backgrounds in which the Cypriot Turkish speaker applies the formation, the paper classifies examples according to semantical notions as ‘commissive’, ‘admonitive’, ‘slight reproach’, etc.
DOI: 10.4000/cchyp.785
Author: Gulshen Sakhatova
Institution: University of Cyprus
Language: English
Subfield: Language and Linguistics
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4312596452