Dilbilimi: Recent submissions

  • The analysis of Turkish passives in discourse 
    Tarzi, Muazzez. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 1983., 1983.)
  • A uniform account of personal and impersonal passives in Turkish 
    Dikmen, Furkan. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2020., 2020.)
    In the literature, the general assumption is that passives of unaccusative predicates, and therefore passives of passives, or double passives are cross-linguistically unavailable. Current theories of syntax and semantics ...
  • The causative-inchoative alternation in Turkish Sign Language and the age-of-acquisition effects on complex clauses 
    Kayabaşı, Demet. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2020., 2020.)
    This study aims to describe the causatives-inchoative alternation in Turkish Sign Language and to discuss the age-of-acquisition effects on multi-predicative constructions observed as both causative and inchoative clauses. ...
  • Suspended affixation in Turkish 
    Atmaca, Furkan. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2020., 2020.)
    This study investigates Suspended Affixation (SA) and its environment. Lewis (1967) is credited with the term, but observations of SA can be found in earlier Turkish grammar books (Emre, 1945; Gencan, 1966). It is a ...
  • Negative polarity Kimse and free choice Bir Kimse :|a unified semantic analysis 
    Filiz, Feyza. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2020., 2020.)
    The goal of the present dissertation is a semantic study of the Turkish expression Kimse and; specifically, a unified analysis of two apparently distinct Polarity Sensitive Items, namely Negative Polarity and Free Choice ...
  • The syntax of focus particles in Turkish 
    Vurgun, Uğurcan. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2019., 2019.)
    This study aims to answer three main questions on the syntax of focus particles based on the data in Turkish: (i) Where is the exact location in the phrase structure of Turkish that focus particles are generated? (ii) Are ...
  • A corpus analysis of multiple negation in Turkish 
    Özbey, Can. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2019., 2019.)
    This study investigates double negative constructions (DNCs) in Turkish that incorporate an inner verbal negation followed by an outer sentential negation with respect to their pragmatic properties in a general corpus ...
  • Voice in Istanbul Greek 
    Gülsün, Umut. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2020., 2020.)
    The present thesis aims at analyzing the language spoken by one of the oldest communities in Istanbul: the Istanbul Greeks (Constantinopolites or the “Rums”). As a morphosyntactic analysis of Istanbul Greek, this research ...
  • Denominal verbs in Turkish 
    Gedik, Müge. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2019., 2019.)
    The aim of this study is to investigate the structural properties of denominal verbs derived with the suffix –lA in Turkish and their implications for the VoiceP-vP split. For this purpose, we first analyze Turkish derived ...
  • The universal quantifier 'All’ in Turkish sign language 
    Saral, Burcu. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2019., 2019.)
    This thesis aims at investigating the universal quantification in Turkish Sign Language (TİD). Four signs have been investigated. Contrary to the initial hypotheses of this study, not all of the four signs have been ...
  • The role of heuristics in sentence processing in Turkish 
    Dokudan, Noyan. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2019., 2019.)
    One of the main research areas in psycholinguistic focuses on how people understand sentences. In sentence comprehension studies, it has been shown that language users sometimes engage in ‘shallow’ processing (Barton & ...
  • The syntax of information structure in Turkish nominal phrases 
    Ergelen, Özlem. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2019., 2019.)
    This thesis aims to introduce a novel approach to the internal structure of Turkish nominal phrases by arguing that Turkish encodes information structure inside nominal phrases, possessing layers such as topic and focus. ...
  • Idiomaticity, formulaicity and semi-fixed constructions in Turkish 
    Şen, Ali Yağız. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2019., 2019.)
    This study investigates idiomaticity, formulaicity and constructions in Turkish, limiting the analysis to semi-fixed multiword constructions. These concepts have been independently studied for this language, however, ...
  • Pronouns as referring expressions in Turkish 
    Kurtböke, Petek. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 1983., 1983.)
  • Developing a talking dictionary for a morphologically complex language:|The case of Laz 
    Richardson, Audrey Lynn. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2019., 2019.)
    In this thesis, I conduct a position class morphology (PCM) analysis (Inkelas, 1993) of the verbal morphology of Laz. I then apply this analysis in a discussion of computational methods in order to develop a talking ...
  • How Turkish-speaking children tackle negation when it combines with modality and (non)factivity in complex sentences 
    Hendek, Melike. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2019., 2019.)
    This thesis explores how Turkish-speaking children interpret negation when it combines with other logical operators, such as (non)factive verbs and epistemic modals. Experiment 1, testing 60 Preschool (mean age: 5) and ...
  • Effects of age of acquisition on morphosyntactic structures in Turkish Sign Language :|Evidence from classifiers 
    Sevgi, Hande. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2019., 2019.)
    This study investigates the differences in language production and comprehension of early learner and late learner Turkish Sign Language (TİD) signers. For this purpose, I focus on the complex structures such as classifiers ...
  • Derivational networks of nouns and adjectives in Turkish 
    Kapan, Aysel. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2019., 2019.)
    In Turkish, the distinction between nouns and adjectives is not clear. According to Braun and Haig (2000), nouns and adjectives in Turkish are on a continuum. The distinction between nouns and adjectives is not straightforward ...
  • Aspect and thematic suffixes in Şavşat Georgian 
    Okumuş, Reyhan Lütfiye. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2019., 2019.)
    This study investigates the morpho-syntactic features of Thematic Suffixes (TS) in Şavşat Georgian, a non-literal dialect of Georgian spoken in the northeast of Turkey. Specifically, it aims to provide an analysis on the ...
  • A tripartite division of stative verbs in Turkish 
    Kısa Kaz, Nagihan. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2018., 2018.)
    This thesis investigates the semantic and syntactic behavior of stative verbs in Turkish in the light of two recent analyses, namely Maienborn (2005, 2007) and Rothmayr (2009). It proposes a tripartite division for stative ...

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