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  • 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 ...
  • On suffixhood and verbalness: a Mirror Theoretic approach 
    Bayırlı, İsa Kerem. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2012., 2012.)
    In this thesis, I argue that suffixal and verbal status of a grammatical object can be predicted from its syntactic position within the framework of the Mirror Theoretic syntax of Brody (2003). I first show that in Turkish ...
  • On the nature of anaphoric expressions kendi/ kendisi and the clause structure of Turkish 
    Palaz, Bilge. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2013., 2013.)
    This thesis analyzes the distributional differences between the third person singular reflexive kendi and its variant kendi-si “him/her-self + 3SGPOSS” in Turkish within the assumptions of the Binding Theory and provides ...
  • 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 ...
  • On word order in Gostivar Turkish 
    Tufan, Şirin. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute of Social Sciences, 2001., 2001.)
    This study, first, determines whether G.T. is a free word order language or a configurational language. An analysis of quantifier scope relations in simplex structures in G.T. suggests that G.T. is a configurational language. ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • Pragmatics of impersonal pronouns in Turkish 
    Bedir, Seyyit Talha. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2022., 2022.)
    Impersonal pronouns are pronouns without specific, identifiable real-world referents. It is established in the literature that they are used to convey generalizable claims while expressing a certain degree of subjectivity ...
  • 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 ...
  • Pronouns as referring expressions in Turkish 
    Kurtböke, Petek. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 1983., 1983.)
  • Properties of verbal idioms in Turkish 
    Güven, Mine. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute of Social Sciences, 1997., 1997.)
    This study investigates the notion syntactic jro=enness with respect to Turkish idioms headed by verbs within the framework of generative grammar. The data consist of randomly chosen 725 idioms gathered from the TDK 1988 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • Resumptive pronouns in Turkish 
    Meral, Hasan Mesud. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2004., 2004.)
    This study analyzes the distributional properties of resumptive pronouns, relative clause formation and the nature of the A'-dependency between the resumptive pronoun and its antecedent in Turkish. With respect to the ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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) ...
  • Semantics and syntax of Herhangi bir :|an alternative-based approach to Turkish polarity items 
    Aslan Kubilay, Pınar. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2022., 2022.)
    The aim of this study is two-fold. First, I present a description of the complex behavior of the Turkish polarity sensitive item herhangi bir. Then, based on the picture that emerged, I provide a unified analysis that ...

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