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  • Spatial prefixes of Pazar Laz: a nano-syntactic approach 
    Eren, Ömer. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2016., 2016.)
    This study investigates the spatial prefixal system of Pazar Laz, an endangered South Caucasian language. Specifically, it aims to provide a descriptive and syntactic account of the spatial verbal prefixes of PL, which ...
  • Subject infinitives in Turkish 
    Göksu, Duygu. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2018., 2018.)
    In Turkish, -mA(K) is the nominalizer that forms embedded infinitival clauses. This thesis focuses on the structure of infinitives that are built with this nominalizer and appear to be clausal subjects. The data consist ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • Teaching listening comprehension 
    Oğul, Emel. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 1986., 1986.)
  • Techniques and approaches in teaching reading skills to advanced students 
    Kantaroğlu, Aysun. (Thesis (M.A.)- Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 1984., 1984.)
    Teaching a foreign language has been thought of as developing particular skills, such as listening, speaking, reading, and writing. The reading skill in language teaching has gained more importance since the 1970's. After ...
  • Tense, aspect and modality in the use of the Turkish aorist 
    Enmutlu, Nergis. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 1984., 1984.)
    This study is concerned with explicating various temporal, aspectual and modal phenomena involved in the use of aorist in Turkish which is referred to as a present-time denoting suffix in the grammars of the language. The ...
  • The analysis of Turkish passives in discourse 
    Tarzi, Muazzez. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 1983., 1983.)
  • 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. ...
  • The Effects of climate change on agricultural trade capability of Turkey and her major rivals in european food market 
    Fedai, Halit. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2010., 2010.)
  • The enigma of history: |a study of Shakespeare's historical tetralogies 
    Umur, Nurdan. (Thesis (M.A.)- Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 1981., 1981.)
  • 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 ...
  • The future reference of the Turkish progressive morpheme [-iyor] 
    Kurtoğlu, Işıl. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 1982., 1982.)
  • 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 ...
  • 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 structure of Diye clauses in Turkish 
    Yıldırım Gündoğdu, Hilal. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2017., 2017.)
    This study investigates morpho-syntactic properties of the subordinator diye in Turkish, which is mentioned in a limited number of studies in the literature but not studied in a comprehensive way. An exhaustive analysis ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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. ...
  • 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 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 ...

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