Shared information and argument omission in Turkish

Abstract

Studies of argument realization and omission attempt to lay out various ways of argument realization and ellipsis across languages and aim to uncover how the chosen forms of arguments are determined by language specific constraints. For instance while it is obligatory for English speakers to utter all arguments of a predicate overtly, this obligation does not hold for Turkish speakers, i.e. use of null arguments cannot be deemed as a source of ungrammaticality for Turkish. The English sentence in (1), for instance, can be constructed without a subject in Turkish as in (2). Moreover, Turkish also allows for covert realization of direct objects and oblique objects.