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  • 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. ...
  • Phonology-syntax interface in Turkish: evidence from binding and scope phenomena 
    Oğuşgil, Vahap Atilla. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2004., 2004.)
    This study analyzes the influence of one particular phonological feature - focus - on binding and scope phenomena in Turkish. The analysis of binding specifically includes pronominal binding. It basically specifies the ...
  • Interactional dynamics in medical encounters: the participant roles and identities 
    Çağlar, Özge. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Graduate Institute of Social Sciences, 2005., 2005.)
    The aim of this thesis is to analyze the dynamics of doctor-patient interactions in Turkish from an interactional sociolinguistics perspective. First, how the participants establish the medical talk is analyzed taking into ...
  • Comprehension of reversible sentences in Turkish agrammatism 
    Yolcu, Beste Can. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Graduate Institute of Social Sciences, 2005., 2005.)
    The present study tests the hypothesis proposed to explain the agrammatic comprehension deficit in terms of the loss of traces in syntax, namely the Trace-Deletion Hypothesis (TDH; Grodzinsky 1995, 2000a, 2000b), against ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • Verb movement and feature percolation: evidence from Turkish 
    Ulutaş, Süleyman. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute of Social Sciences, 2006., 2006.)
    This study discusses verb movement in Turkish in terms of itsmorphosyntactic and syntactic implications. The Turkish data suggest that themorphological selectional (i.e. m-selection) properties of the functional categories ...
  • 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 ...
  • Topics in syntax-phonology interface in Turkish: sentential stress and phases 
    Tarhan, Fatma Aslı Üntak. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2006., 2006.)
    This study investigates the nature of sentential stress, how it is assigned and how it interacts with focus structure and discourse pragmatic factors in Turkish. Recent work inthe literature (Legate 2003, Kahnemuyipour ...
  • Vowel-zero alternation in Turkish 
    İskender, Halil İbrahim. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2008., 2008.)
    This work aims at analysing the conditions for vowel-zero alternation in modern Standard Turkish. The purpose is both descriptive and theoretical. The data that has been collected from native speakers of modern Standard ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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, ...
  • 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. ...
  • Prosodic domains and the syntax-prosody mapping in Turkish 
    Kan, Seda. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2009., 2009.)
    This study investigates the phonetics and phonology of phrasal domains in Turkish prosody and discusses its implications for the syntax-prosody mapping. The findings and proposals are based on a corpus of 1152 sentences ...
  • 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 ...

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