M.A. Theses: Recent submissions

  • Acquisition of passives in Turkish 
    Efeoğlu, Gülümser. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2011., 2011.)
    This study aims at investigating the acquisition of passive constructions in Turkish and to shed light on the path that Turkish children follow in their acquisition of passives in different constructions. Turkish, as an ...
  • Phonological and morphological aspects of lexicalized fingerspelling in Turkish Sign Language (TİD) 
    Taşçı, Süleyman Sabri. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2012., 2012.)
    In this study, we aim to analyze certain morphological and phonological characteristics of lexicalized fingerspelling in Turkish Sign Language (TİD). Fingerspelling is a system which represents the characters of a writing ...
  • Nature versus convention: |a study of E. M. Forster's novels 
    Akdeniz, Fatma. (Thesis (M.A.)- Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 1983., 1982.)
  • Apophony in Turkish onomatopoeic reduplications 
    Baturay, Semra. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2010., 2010.)
    The present work investigates the sound alternations in Turkish onomatopoeic reduplications and provides an analysis based on apophony. I focus on the vocalic and consonantal alternations as the core data and raise the ...
  • Pragmatic and prosodic analysis of sentence topic in Turkish 
    Güneş, Güliz. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2010., 2010.)
    This study investigates the use Sentence Topics in Turkish naturally occurring conversations. In particular, it focuses on the correlation between the pragmatic functions, informative status and the prosodic properties of ...
  • On the role of empty onsets in Turkish: a government phonology approach 
    Nuhbalaoğlu, Derya. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2010., 2010.)
    This study investigates the distribution of empty onsets [Ox-O] in careful and casual speech of Turkish in the framework of (Standard) Government Phonology (GP). It is proposed that the occurrence of a certain type of an ...
  • Direct reported speech: positioning and relational identity work 
    İkizoğlu, Didem. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2010., 2010.)
    This thesis aims to describe how direct reported speech (DRS) is constructed in Turkish and investigate how narrators make use of different reporting strategies in order to position themselves, their audience and the ...
  • Intervention effects in simple Wh-questions in Turkish 
    Kesen, Yasemin. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2010., 2010.)
    This study investigates the nature of intervention effects introduced by four groups of potential interveners in simple wh-questions in Turkish: negative polarity items, quantifier phrases, lexically marked focus phrases ...
  • Impoliteness in computer mediated communication 
    Can, Ayşegül. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2009., 2009.)
    In this study, the nature of linguistic (im)politeness is examined in Turkish Computer Mediated Communication (henceforth CMC) based on data collected at an internet discussion forum. The aim of my study is to investigate ...
  • Establishing legitimacy: persuasion and organisational identity 
    Humphrey, Alys. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2010., 2010.)
    Studies of institutions have shown that legitimacy and credibility are important aspects of institutional identity, particularly in the case of NGO. Given that identity is established and reflected largely through linguistic ...
  • On scrambling in Turkish 
    Akan, Tamer. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2009., 2009.)
    This thesis aims to investigate the nature of the scrambling phenomenon in Turkish under the assumptions of minimalist program, which is the last phase of generative grammar. It focuses on the type of movement observed in ...
  • Rhetorical yes/no questions in Turkish 
    Keçeli, Tülin. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2009., 2009.)
    This study investigates the factors that play a role in interpreting an utterance in the form of a yes/no question as a rhetorical question. The fact that pairs of utterances marked with the same syntactic marker (question ...
  • Subject positions, case checking and EPP in complex noun phrase constructions in Turkish 
    Gürer, Aslı. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2010., 2010.)
    This study discusses Nominative/Genitive subject case checking in CNPCs, in certain complement and adjunct clauses in Turkish. We analyze the structural properties of CNPCs as higher order compounds and the syntactic ...
  • Acquisition of relative clauses in Turkish 
    Yumrutaş, Neslihan. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2009., 2009.)
    This study analyzes the acquisition of relative clauses in Turkish. Turkish is a language with a dual system of relative clause formation. It differentiates between subject (SR) and nonsubject (NSR) relatives. SR makes use ...
  • Topics in Turkish sign language (Türk İşaret Dili – TİD) syntax: verb movement, negation and clausal architecture 
    Gökgöz, Kadir. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2009., 2009.)
    This study discusses the syntactic structure of Turkish Sign Language (Türk İşaret Dili – TĠD). Specifically, we investigate the IP and CP domains in the clausal architecture of TĠD. Our data suggest that various nonmanual ...
  • Variable wh-words in Turkish 
    Görgülü, Emrah. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2006., 2006.)
    This study analyzes the syntactic and semantic properties of wh-words in Turkish. Inview of the fact that wh-words in Turkish do not appear only in wh-questions but occur innon-interrogative environments, it is argued that ...
  • The enigma of history: |a study of Shakespeare's historical tetralogies 
    Umur, Nurdan. (Thesis (M.A.)- Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 1981., 1981.)
  • Control in Turkish 
    Oded, İlknur. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute of Social Sciences, 2006., 2006.)
    This study aims to investigate the properties of control in Turkish and provide a typology for Turkish control structures. To this end, the applicability of Hornstein's Movement Theory of Control (MTC) (1999), which treats ...
  • Finiteness and complementation patterns in Pazar Laz 
    Emgin, Betül. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2009., 2009.)
    This study investigates the nature of (non-)finite clauses in Pazar Laz, a dialect of Laz language. Finiteness has been defined as a morpho-syntactic phenomenon which is associated with the presence of nominative case, ...
  • Expository writing in Turkish: a rhetorical approach to coherence and cohesion 
    Koçbaş, B. Dilara. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2006., 2006.)
    Coherence, i.e. the overall structure of the content of a text and cohesion, i.e. thetext-internal relations across clauses are considered two important standards that indicate the development of text construction abilities ...

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