Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
Turkiyat Mecmuasi, cilt.29, sa.2, ss.403-417, 2019 (Scopus, TRDizin)
Language is a phenomenon of human production with its own nature and rules. While language maintains its formation and development within the framework of certain principles, it also carries characteristics that can change from one society to another. Linguists who are interested in pure language have put forward various theories for this production tool. One of these approaches, Universal Grammar or Generative-Transformational Grammar, is an early theory based on Chomsky’s approach to understanding languages and their structure which he developed from the 1950s onwards. The core ideas of this theory are that all languages contain common principles, but that each language contains parameters that differ from one another. These principles include the concept of transformation which will be considered within the boundaries of syntax. In all languages, surface structures that have undergone different transformation processes can be seen provided that the deep structure remains the same. The transformations mentioned in the theory may differ from language to language. These include sub-processes such as addition, rewriting, reduction (deleting), and movement. In this study, the three types of movement mentioned in the theory and referred to by Chomsky as noun phrase-movement, wh-movement and head-movement are discussed through Turkish examples. However, this study also includes examples of movement which are not part of the theory yet are encountered in Turkish, such as causativation, verbal-movement and sentence-movement.