M.A. Theses: Recent submissions

  • 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. ...
  • 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 ...

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