ABSTRACT

This paper focuses on the linguistic realization of five idealized situation types, namely states, semelfactives, activities, achievements and accomplishments, in Turkish within the framework of Smith’s (1997) theory of aspect where two components are distinguished, namely viewpoint aspect and situation type. Three temporal/aspectual features, namely dynamism, duration and telicity, which are based on human cognitive and perceptual capabilities, will be illustrated to distinguish among the five situation types in Turkish within a number of semantic and syntactic environments constituting the linguistic correlates of these temporal/aspectual features.