This study aims to provide a novel analysis for light verb constructions inTurkish that are built by combining a nominal with the verbal elementet. Building onthe earlier insight thatetcan both be a light verb and a ‘heavy’ verb in the language,we provide a formally explicit Distributed Morphology analysis that substantiates theidea that the nominal that combines withetis variably either an uncategorized rootor an NP. Our evidence for this split comes from the behavior of nominals in the casecalculus and with respect to referentiality. Nevertheless, we propose a uniform analy-sis ofetwhere it realizes an agentive verbalizer head, taking the locus of variation tobe in the complexity of the verbalizer’s complement.
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