Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü: Recent submissions

  • Argument-adjunct distinction in Kurmanji Kurdish 
    Gündoğdu, Songül. (Thesis (Ph.D.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2018., 2018.)
    This dissertation investigates the status of a number of constituents in Muş Kurmanji (MK), namely postverbal goals, certain adpositional phrases, and the nominal element of noun-verb complex predicates which fall in ...
  • Classifier constructions of Turkish 
    Turgay, Tacettin. (Thesis (Ph.D.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2020., 2020.)
    This dissertation addresses three interrelated issues concerning classifier constructions in Turkish: (i) semantics of bare noun phrases, (ii) the function of classifiers and syntactic constituency of classifier constructions, ...
  • A computational approach to collectivity and distributivity in Turkish quantificational sentences 
    Bülbül, Eda Esra. (Thesis (Ph.D.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2010., 2010.)
    This dissertation discusses the nature of quantificational sentences with the quantifiers her “every” and bütün “all” in Turkish and investigates how quantificational sentences get interpreted in terms of collectivity / ...
  • Semantic, prosodic, and syntactic marking of Information Structural Units in Turkish 
    Gürer, Aslı. (Thesis (Ph.D.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2015., 2015.)
    This dissertation focuses on how Turkish encodes information structural units within semantics, prosody and syntax interface. Information packaging is investigated under the classification of (i) aboutness topic, (ii) ...
  • Resumption, A’- chains and implications on clausal architecture 
    Meral, Hasan Mesud. (Thesis (Ph.D.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2010., 2010.)
    This work investigates the nature of resumption and provides an analysis of how anaphoric dependencies occur in language. I raise the question whether resumption has any explanatory power on various grammatical phenomena ...
  • Temporal clauses in Turkish Sign Language 
    Özkul, Aslı. (Thesis (Ph.D.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2021., 2021.)
    This dissertation aims to investigate the typological, structural, and semantic properties of temporal clauses in Turkish Sign Language (TİD). It is shown in this thesis that temporal clauses that denote sequentiality, ...
  • A government phonology analysis of Turkish consonants 
    Balcı, Ercan. (Thesis (Ph.D.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2006., 2006.)
    The main topic of this dissertation is a detailed analysis of Turkish consonants in theframework of Government Phonology. In order to explain a number of phonologicalphenomena involving consonants, the elemental composition ...
  • A split model for category specification: lexical categories in Turkish 
    Uygun, Dilek. (Thesis (Ph.D.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2009., 2009.)
    This dissertation discusses the nature of the traditionally recognized categorial distinctions "noun", "adjective" and "verb" in Turkish and investigates whether these distinctions are specified in the lexicon or in syntax. ...
  • Case as an uninterpretable feature 
    Kechriotis, Zekiye Ceyda Arslan. (Thesis (Ph.D.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in teh Social Sciences, 2006., 2006.)
    The aim of this dissertation is to discuss the syntactic properties of nominals in Turkish, their Case properties and the implications of a theory of grammar in which the dislocation of arguments is not motivated by the ...
  • Adverbials in Turkish: the third parameter in aspectual interpretation 
    Güven, Mine. (Thesis (Ph.D.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2004., 2004.)
    The main argument of the present dissertation is that T/A adverbials in Turkish constitute the third parameter in aspectual interpretation along with the other two parameters, namely situation type and viewpoint aspect. ...
  • Consumer attitudes toward video ads; impact of information quality, information source and brand favorability 
    Elmas, Yavuz Selim. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2022., 2022)
    Digital video advertising is undoubtedly a part of consumers’ digital journeys. Thus, it is worth to study how consumer’s digital experience is affected. With regard to that, this study employed an adopted Information ...
  • Malevolent-children in modern Turkish short story 
    Abanoz, Süheyla. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2022., 2022)
    “Evil” is considered to be an equivalent word for “virtueless” that is a meaningful form in society and defined by the words "bad, wicked, awful" etc. When this lack of virtue, which is often brought up by the humanities, ...
  • The formation and evolution of the Image of the Turks in Byzantine historiography 
    Tirali, Ali. (Thesis (Ph.D.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2022., 2022)
    This study explores the representation of the Turks in middle and late Byzantine historiography. It features a corpus covering the 11th to the 15th centuries, comprising the works of Attaleiates, Skylitzes, Anna Komnene, ...
  • Isfahan and Istanbul in the early seventeenth century : Masjed-e Shah and Sultan Ahmed complexes 
    Gürkan Anar, Damla. (Thesis (Ph.D.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2022., 2022)
    This dissertation investigates the urban, architectural, and ceremonial formations of the Sultan Ahmed and Masjed-e Shah complexes, erected in early seventeenth century Istanbul and Isfahan by rival monarchs, Ahmed I ...
  • Ahmet Rıfat Efendi's Mirâtü’l-Mekâsid : the possibility of a Sunni Bektaşiyye in the nineteenth century 
    Kiper, Metin. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2022., 2022)
    This thesis focuses on the work Mir’âtü'l-Mekâsid fî Def'i'l Mefâsid, which was written by a Bektaşi intellectual, Ahmet Rıfat Efendi in 1875. Although the Bektaşi order left its mark on the Ottoman Empire and had a ...
  • Images of time : analysis of stele of Vultures and Victory stele of Naram-Sin 
    Koçer, Azra Ruveyde. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2022., 2022)
    Commemorative monuments were created in Mesopotamia for the first time. They were carved in relief and inscribed withs texts and recorded historical events with name of the ruler. This thesis investigates the connections ...
  • Village close enough : a study of the changing character of rural space in Turkey 
    Taşyürek, Elif Hatice. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2022., 2022)
    This thesis aims to investigate movements occurring at a close distance between rural and urban areas and the changing character of the rural space in Turkey. Within the scope of the ethnographic field research I conducted ...
  • China’s shifting position in the global climate change 
    Elmalı, Burak. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2023., 2022)
    Over the past two decades, China has emerged as a rising economic power with excessive amounts of carbon emissions that directly contribute to global climate change. Being a part of the international regime for global ...
  • Lived experiences of parents of children and adolescents with cancer in Türkiye 
    Özdemir, Sümeyye. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2022., 2022)
    The purpose of the current study is to investigate the lived experiences of parents of children and adolescents with cancer in Türkiye. In this qualitative study which aimed to understand how having a child undergoing ...
  • Individualized second language vocabulary learning through a collaborative multimedia platform : a design-based research 
    Özkan, Gökhan. (Thesis (Ph.D.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2022., 2022)
    Incorporation of computer-assisted language learning applications into learning environments through collaborative learning management systems embedded in a hybrid/native mobile app is the subject of this research to apply, ...