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The articles in this volume investigate various aspects of the word order phenomena in Turkish, a head final, left-branching, ‘free’ word order language. Linearization patterns exhibited by languages have been at the core of both descriptive and generative research for more than five decades of typological and theoretical linguistics.
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Please see Arslan-Kechriotis (2006) for an argument in favor of DP in Turkish.
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Özsoy, A.S. (2019). Introduction. In: Özsoy, A. (eds) Word Order in Turkish. Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, vol 97. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-11385-8_1
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