The „Errant‟ Scope of Question in Turkish: A Word Grammar Account

Previous studies dealing with the position of the interrogative clitic in Turkish, such as Besler (2000) and Aygen (2007), seem to be based on the assumption that the position of the interrogative clitic naïvely corresponds to the scope of question. However, Zimmer (1998) and Göksel and Kerslake (2005) point out that there are cases where the interrogative clitic is located in the pre-verbal position and attached to a word which is the dependent of the predicate, but the scope of question is the whole of the proposition rather than its specific part. In this article, I would like to argue that an analysis based on Word Grammar, a kind of dependencybased theories, successfully deals with these types of the „errant‟ scope of the question, by showing a rich network concerned with semantic structure where some concepts concerned with the speech-act such as a speaker and an addressee are introduced, following Hudson (1990) and Hudson