A Hierarchical Explanation against the Distinction of Nominal Copular Sentences in Turkish

A philosophically-based distinction which divides nominal copular sentences into two types, "attributives" & "equatives," & which has been considered in linguistics for a long time has never been studied in Turkish. Only Tura (1986) suggests that "equative-attributive" distinction is also observed in Turkish. In this paper, I will claim that this distinction is not valid for nominal copular sentences, at least in Turkish, & show that the inversion observed in such sentences is not subject to a distinction of sentence types, but to a semantic hierarchy among noun phrase types. Drawing on the data of personal pronouns in copular sentences from Turkish & various other languages, I will also show that the semantic hierarchy seems to be typologically formed. References. Adapted from the source document