Dilbilimi: Recent submissions

  • Subject infinitives in Turkish 
    Göksu, Duygu. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2018., 2018.)
    In Turkish, -mA(K) is the nominalizer that forms embedded infinitival clauses. This thesis focuses on the structure of infinitives that are built with this nominalizer and appear to be clausal subjects. The data consist ...
  • Children's comprehension of presuppositions introduced by focus particles: Evidence from Turkish 
    Topaloğlu, Simge. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2018., 2018.)
    This thesis investigates whether and how Turkish-speaking children interpret the presuppositions of the additive focus particle dA ('also') and the scalar additive focus particle bile ('even'). Experiment 1 examines ...
  • Minimal words in Turkish: A view from locality 
    Taşdemir, Yasin. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2018., 2018.)
    This thesis proposes that the apparent irregularity of minimal words in Turkish emerges from the interaction between phonology and morphosyntax. In order to analyze this interaction, I utilize Government Phonology and ...
  • A linguistic approach to poetry for advanced TFL classes 
    Bengi, Işın. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 1983., 1983.)
  • Non-canonical morphological patterns in Turkish: Evidence from person-number markers 
    Erdem, Münevver. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2018., 2018.)
    This study investigates the structure and behavior of the person-number markers in the Turkish verbal inflectional paradigms. It mainly argues against the predominant view that Turkish morphology is highly regular and ...
  • The structure of Diye clauses in Turkish 
    Yıldırım Gündoğdu, Hilal. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2017., 2017.)
    This study investigates morpho-syntactic properties of the subordinator diye in Turkish, which is mentioned in a limited number of studies in the literature but not studied in a comprehensive way. An exhaustive analysis ...
  • Valence and saturation phonology 
    Mutlu, Filiz Mirac. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2017., 2017.)
    I propose a theory of phonology which aims to derive the entire system from one principle, viz. asymmetry, in a non-stipulative way (cf. Di Sciullo, 2005; Dresher and van der Hulst, 1998; Kayne, 1994). Segmental components ...
  • Turkish change of state verbs in the inchoative-causative alternation 
    Balakbabalar, Feyza. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2015., 2015.)
    In this thesis, I study the principles that govern the inchoative-causative alternation in Turkish. I present the non-unified derivation of change of state (CoS) verbs in Turkish in light of a Distributed Morphology account ...
  • Spatial prefixes of Pazar Laz: a nano-syntactic approach 
    Eren, Ömer. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2016., 2016.)
    This study investigates the spatial prefixal system of Pazar Laz, an endangered South Caucasian language. Specifically, it aims to provide a descriptive and syntactic account of the spatial verbal prefixes of PL, which ...
  • Processing genitive-possessive long distance dependencies in Turkish 
    Akpınar, Seda. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2015., 2015.)
    This study addresses the processing of Genitive (GEN)-Possessive (POSS) long distance dependencies in Turkish in both Noun Phrases (NPs) and non-finite embedded clauses. The self-paced reading paradigm to investigate two ...
  • Time and aspect in Turkish Sign Language (TİD): manual and nonmanual realizations of 'finish' 
    Karabüklü, Serpil. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2016., 2016.)
    The need to study aspectual marking in TİD lies in the fact that a small number of studies in the literature mention manual aspectual markers but do not provide a detailed analysis. Understanding the aspectual marking in ...
  • Inflected doubled verbs in Turkish 
    Erbaşı, Betül. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2015., 2015.)
    This study investigates aspectual, morpho-syntactic and prosodic properties of Infected Doubled Verbs (DVs) in Turkish with the aim of providing a systematic analysis of the data based on a grammaticality judgment experiment ...
  • Contrastive Değil constructions In Turkish: a large conjunct and Pf-deletion analysis 
    Yakut Kubaş, Ayşe Büşra. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2015., 2015.)
    I aim to contribute new empirical evidence and theoretical insight pertinent to the general issue of negation in contrastive environments. An understanding of the contrastive değil constructions and the nature of değil in ...
  • Complex clauses with embedded constituent interrogatives in Turkish Sign Language (TİD) 
    Hakgüder, Emre. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2015., 2015.)
    The aim of this thesis is twofold: while presenting my observations on the syntax and prosody of clausal wh-complements in Turkish Sign Language (TİD), I discuss the implications of my findings to matrix interrogatives and ...
  • Some considerations in teaching Turkish women how to read and write 
    Cox, Norma Jeanne. (Thesis (M.A.)- Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 1983., 1983.)
  • Non-structural datives in Turkish 
    Tonyalı, Nil. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2015., 2015.)
    This thesis investigates the meanings and functions of the dative case in Turkish by examining its syntactic and semantic properties in relation to the event structure. Specifically, it analyzes how the distinct meanings ...
  • Reduplication as a compounding process: the case of [VV] converbs in Turkish 
    Yıldız, Esra. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2014., 2014.)
    This study investigates the nature of Turkish [V(erb) V(erb)] constructions that are converbs (henceforth, [VV] converbs). Turkish [VV] converbs can bear various converbial markers and the ones focused in this study are ...
  • Resultative constructions in Turkish 
    Turgay, Tacettin. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2013., 2013.)
    This thesis studies the syntactic structure of resultative constructions in Turkish and investigates whether the secondary predicate is within or outside the minimal VP. Based on the constraints governing the behavior of ...
  • The verbal functional domain in the Denizli dialect of Turkish 
    Sağ, Yağmur. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2013., 2013.)
    this thesis, I study the verbal domain in the Denizli Dialect of Turkish including syntactic and morphological characteristics of the functional categories (Tense, Aspect, Modality), the copulas i- and ol-, and person ...
  • The functional categories and phrase structure of Sason Arabic 
    Akkuş, Faruk. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2014., 2014.)
    The study aims to investigate primarily the functional categories and the phrase structure of Sason Arabic. Adopting the main premises of the Minimalist Program, I analyze the syntactic representations of functional ...