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  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • Frequency effects in the production and perception of long vowels in Turkish 
    Sarıgül, Özge. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2011., 2011.)
    This study aims to understand whether the linguistic experience of Turkish speakers have an effect on their knowledge of the phonology of their language and linguistic processes like production and perception. The ...
  • The phrase structure of two dialects of Kurmanji Kurdish: standard dialect and Muş dialect 
    Gündoğdu, Songül. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2011., 2011.)
    This study aims to investigate the phrase structure of Kurmanji Kurdish with a specific focus on ergativity. In the literature, Kurmanji is assumed to exhibit two different case patterns depending on the tense and transitivity ...
  • Ambivalent belongings: a discourse analysis of second generation Cretan immigrants in Cunda 
    Kaya, Neşe. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2011., 2011.)
    This thesis analyzes the discourse of second generation Cretan immigrants whose forefathers were forcibly relocated to Cunda via the population exchange between Greece and the Republic of Turkey in 1924. The aim is to ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • Ergative as accusative case: evidence from Adıyaman Kurmanji 
    Atlamaz, Ümit. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2012., 2012.)
    This study aims to investigate the nature of ergativity in Adıyaman Kurmanji within the premises of the Minimalist Program. Adıyaman Kurmanji displays two alignment patterns depending on the tense. In non-past structures ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • The verbal functional domain in the Denizli dialect of Turkish 
    Sağ, Yağmur. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2013., 2013.)
    this thesis, I study the verbal domain in the Denizli Dialect of Turkish including syntactic and morphological characteristics of the functional categories (Tense, Aspect, Modality), the copulas i- and ol-, and person ...
  • Acquisition of modality in Turkish 
    Terziyan, Treysi. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2013., 2013.)
    In this thesis, modality is explored from different perspectives such as semantics, typology and psycholinguistics. The aim of this thesis is to investigate how modality unfolds in the linguistic development of Turkish ...
  • A phonological and morphological analysis of instrumental noun-verb pairs in Turkish sign language (TİD) 
    Özkul, Aslı. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2013., 2013.)
    This study investigates the differences between instrumental N/V (insN/V) pairs in TİD through phonological and morphological parameters. Length, repetition and mouthing have been examined as the phonological criteria for ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • The functional categories and phrase structure of Sason Arabic 
    Akkuş, Faruk. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2014., 2014.)
    The study aims to investigate primarily the functional categories and the phrase structure of Sason Arabic. Adopting the main premises of the Minimalist Program, I analyze the syntactic representations of functional ...
  • Non-structural datives in Turkish 
    Tonyalı, Nil. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2015., 2015.)
    This thesis investigates the meanings and functions of the dative case in Turkish by examining its syntactic and semantic properties in relation to the event structure. Specifically, it analyzes how the distinct meanings ...
  • Turkish change of state verbs in the inchoative-causative alternation 
    Balakbabalar, Feyza. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2015., 2015.)
    In this thesis, I study the principles that govern the inchoative-causative alternation in Turkish. I present the non-unified derivation of change of state (CoS) verbs in Turkish in light of a Distributed Morphology account ...

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