On Necessity in Cypriot Turkish

This paper focuses on the expression of necessity as a modal notion in Cypriot Turkish. A qualitative analysis of data gathered from various sources reveals that periphrastic or lexical expressions such as mecbur‘obliged,’ lazım ‘necessary,’ illa ‘insistently,’ mutlaka ‘definitely,’ etc. rather than...

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Main Author: Mine Güven
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Dilbilim Derneği (The Linguistics Association) 2015-12-01
Series:Dilbilim Araştırmaları Dergisi
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Online Access:http://dad.boun.edu.tr/download/article-file/305756