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    Context, contrast, and the structure of discourse in Turkish
    with Umit Deniz Turan
    In Anita Fetzer & Etsuko Oishi (eds.), Context and Contexts: Parts Meet Whole?, John Benjamins. pp. 147. 2011.
    This paper attempts to account for the contrastive discourse connective (tam) tersine (‘on the contrary’) in Turkish discourse. We suggest that this connective evokes a discourse structure which has at least three parts: the material in the prior linguistic context, its refutation, and then rectification in the clause where the connective is hosted. Since negation is obligatory in the discourse context for refutation, we include a discussion of negation and we conclude that the obligatory negati…Read more