M.A. Theses: Recent submissions

  • Vowel-zero alternation in Turkish 
    İskender, Halil İbrahim. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2008., 2008.)
    This work aims at analysing the conditions for vowel-zero alternation in modern Standard Turkish. The purpose is both descriptive and theoretical. The data that has been collected from native speakers of modern Standard ...
  • Topics in syntax-phonology interface in Turkish: sentential stress and phases 
    Tarhan, Fatma Aslı Üntak. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2006., 2006.)
    This study investigates the nature of sentential stress, how it is assigned and how it interacts with focus structure and discourse pragmatic factors in Turkish. Recent work inthe literature (Legate 2003, Kahnemuyipour ...
  • Prosodic domains and the syntax-prosody mapping in Turkish 
    Kan, Seda. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2009., 2009.)
    This study investigates the phonetics and phonology of phrasal domains in Turkish prosody and discusses its implications for the syntax-prosody mapping. The findings and proposals are based on a corpus of 1152 sentences ...
  • Interactional dynamics in medical encounters: the participant roles and identities 
    Çağlar, Özge. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Graduate Institute of Social Sciences, 2005., 2005.)
    The aim of this thesis is to analyze the dynamics of doctor-patient interactions in Turkish from an interactional sociolinguistics perspective. First, how the participants establish the medical talk is analyzed taking into ...
  • Resumptive pronouns in Turkish 
    Meral, Hasan Mesud. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2004., 2004.)
    This study analyzes the distributional properties of resumptive pronouns, relative clause formation and the nature of the A'-dependency between the resumptive pronoun and its antecedent in Turkish. With respect to the ...
  • Verbal and nominal functional categories of a Turkish speaking autistic child 
    Günhan, N. Evra. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2004., 2004.)
    Autism is a neuro-developmental disorder which affects social communication and language facilities.The present study investigates the production of nominal and verbal functional categories by a Turkish speaking autistic ...
  • Comprehension of reversible sentences in Turkish agrammatism 
    Yolcu, Beste Can. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Graduate Institute of Social Sciences, 2005., 2005.)
    The present study tests the hypothesis proposed to explain the agrammatic comprehension deficit in terms of the loss of traces in syntax, namely the Trace-Deletion Hypothesis (TDH; Grodzinsky 1995, 2000a, 2000b), against ...
  • Learning problems with -dik and -yen 
    Garner, Glen. (Thesis (M.A.)- Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 1981., 1981.)
  • Verb movement and feature percolation: evidence from Turkish 
    Ulutaş, Süleyman. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute of Social Sciences, 2006., 2006.)
    This study discusses verb movement in Turkish in terms of itsmorphosyntactic and syntactic implications. The Turkish data suggest that themorphological selectional (i.e. m-selection) properties of the functional categories ...
  • On word order in Gostivar Turkish 
    Tufan, Şirin. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute of Social Sciences, 2001., 2001.)
    This study, first, determines whether G.T. is a free word order language or a configurational language. An analysis of quantifier scope relations in simplex structures in G.T. suggests that G.T. is a configurational language. ...
  • Early verbs and the acquisition of Turkish argument structure 
    Ketrez, F. Nihan, 1973- (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute of Social Sciences, 1999., 1999.)
    This thesis analyzes the acquisition of early verbs and Turkish argument structure by four, monolingual Turkish children whose language development is studied longitudinally between the ages 1; 1,19 and 3;3,3. In the first ...
  • Properties of verbal idioms in Turkish 
    Güven, Mine. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute of Social Sciences, 1997., 1997.)
    This study investigates the notion syntactic jro=enness with respect to Turkish idioms headed by verbs within the framework of generative grammar. The data consist of randomly chosen 725 idioms gathered from the TDK 1988 ...
  • Teaching listening comprehension 
    Oğul, Emel. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 1986., 1986.)
  • Approaches to wh-structures in Turkish 
    Arslan, Zekiye Ceyda. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute of Social Sciences, 1999., 1999.)
    The aim of this study is to analyze and account for the syntactic properties of wh-structures in Turkish within the Government and Binding framework. Wh-constituents in a Turkish interrogative sentence occurs ttin situ", ...
  • Phonology-syntax interface in Turkish: evidence from binding and scope phenomena 
    Oğuşgil, Vahap Atilla. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2004., 2004.)
    This study analyzes the influence of one particular phonological feature - focus - on binding and scope phenomena in Turkish. The analysis of binding specifically includes pronominal binding. It basically specifies the ...
  • Acquisition of complementation in Turkish 
    Ciğer, Aslı. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2002., 2002.)
    This thesis analyzes the acquisition of complement structures in Turkish, concentrating on the acquisition of object complements formed with the nominalizers -mAK, -mA, -DIK and -(y)AcAk. Both naturalistic and experimental ...
  • 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 ...
  • Agreement attraction in Turkish 
    Türk, Utku. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2022., 2022.)
    In this thesis, I investigate the existing agreement attraction effects in Turkish and how these effects interact with various phenomenon such as (i) case syncretism and local ambiguity, (ii) form heuristics, (iii) response ...
  • Semantics and syntax of Herhangi bir :|an alternative-based approach to Turkish polarity items 
    Aslan Kubilay, Pınar. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2022., 2022.)
    The aim of this study is two-fold. First, I present a description of the complex behavior of the Turkish polarity sensitive item herhangi bir. Then, based on the picture that emerged, I provide a unified analysis that ...
  • Pragmatics of impersonal pronouns in Turkish 
    Bedir, Seyyit Talha. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2022., 2022.)
    Impersonal pronouns are pronouns without specific, identifiable real-world referents. It is established in the literature that they are used to convey generalizable claims while expressing a certain degree of subjectivity ...

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