Dilbilimi: 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. ...
  • Turkish indefinites : scope and specificity 
    Baykuş, Ecem. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2022., 2022)
    Turkish indefinites in object position are expressed in two ways: one is marked with the accusative case, and the other one is non-marked. Interestingly, there is a sharp contrast between these two indefinites. Accusative ...
  • Multinomial processing tree models of recent accounts of the processing of noncanonical word order sentences 
    Çavuşoğlu, Kasım Burak. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2022., 2022.)
    This study investigates the predictions of the retrieval and the parsing accounts of the processing of noncanonical word order sentences by implementing their suggestions in multinomial processing tree (MPT) models (Riefer ...
  • Turkish memes and their users :|indexicality and identity through language play 
    Tunçer, Ümit Can. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2022., 2022.)
    Internet memes have been a considerable point of interest to their users ever since their widespread recognition on social media channels. These digital items often come in different shapes and formats, varying from ...
  • Lexical effects in morpho-orthographic segmentation 
    Kellum, Allyson Lee. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2022., 2022.)
    The present study investigated how native English speakers process morphologically complex words and monomorphemic words. Pseudo-complex words have a whole word meaning, but also a possible decomposition into a stem and ...
  • Applicatives in Ladino 
    Dinç, Fatma Belgin. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2021., 2021.)
    This thesis explores how non-core arguments are licensed in Ladino/Judeo Espanyol (JE), a minority language spoken in Turkey by the Sephardic Jews. The language has been in contact with Turkish since the settlement of the ...
  • Expression of arguments and age of acquisition effects in Turkish Sign Language 
    Özdemir, Semra. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2021., 2021.)
    This study explores how delayed exposure to Turkish Sign Language (TİD) affects the encoding of arguments on agreeing verbs, within an utterance, and in descriptions of multiple entities. The discussion on agreeing verbs ...
  • Applicatives in Pomak 
    Karakaş, Sercan. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2022., 2022.)
    This thesis aims at analyzing how non-core arguments are licensed in Pomak, a severely endangered language spoken in the Balkans, within the Generative Framework, focusing on ditranstive constructions, i.e. double object ...
  • Kazakh esh-words and negative concord 
    Amirzhanova, Assem. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2021., 2021.)
    The goal of this thesis is twofold. First, I present compelling evidence that Esh-words in Kazakh pattern with Strict Negative Concord Items (SNCIs) of the variety found in Slavic languages (e.g. Russian) rather than ...
  • Semantics of Turkish free conditionals 
    Akpınar, Kadernur. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2021., 2021.)
    The aim of the present research is to provide a novel compositional semantic analysis for Turkish conditional sentences with wh-phrases in their antecedents (wh conditionals henceforth), which are ambiguous between question ...
  • A semantic description of Turkish conditional sentences 
    Soykan, Bergül. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2021., 2021.)
    This thesis aims to provide a semantic description for the conditional statements in Turkish by mainly focusing on the interpretations of three different morphemes: namely the aorist, the conditional, and the past markers. ...

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