Variability in the realization of agreement in Turkish

Subject agreement in Turkish usually appears verb-finally. However, in certain cases agreement may appear non-finally. Furthermore, in certain dialects, and in colloquial speech, agreement may appear both finally and non-finally, yielding doubling. Previous accounts do not consider double agreement, and therefore are explanatorily inadequate. This paper proposes an account in which medial agreement is derived via reduplicating a string of morphemes that includes agreement, followed by deletion of some of the duplicate or original morphemes. While medial agreement involves reduplication plus deletion of one of the occurrences of agreement, I claim that double agreement involves reduplication but without deletion of the base or the reduplicant of agreement. My account is an adapted version of the morphological metathesis accounts that were proposed for double agreement in Spanish (see Mare 2018 for an overview).