M.A. Theses: Recent submissions

  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • Children's comprehension of presuppositions introduced by focus particles: Evidence from Turkish 
    Topaloğlu, Simge. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2018., 2018.)
    This thesis investigates whether and how Turkish-speaking children interpret the presuppositions of the additive focus particle dA ('also') and the scalar additive focus particle bile ('even'). Experiment 1 examines ...
  • Minimal words in Turkish: A view from locality 
    Taşdemir, Yasin. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2018., 2018.)
    This thesis proposes that the apparent irregularity of minimal words in Turkish emerges from the interaction between phonology and morphosyntax. In order to analyze this interaction, I utilize Government Phonology and ...
  • A linguistic approach to poetry for advanced TFL classes 
    Bengi, Işın. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 1983., 1983.)
  • Non-canonical morphological patterns in Turkish: Evidence from person-number markers 
    Erdem, Münevver. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2018., 2018.)
    This study investigates the structure and behavior of the person-number markers in the Turkish verbal inflectional paradigms. It mainly argues against the predominant view that Turkish morphology is highly regular and ...
  • 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 ...
  • Valence and saturation phonology 
    Mutlu, Filiz Mirac. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2017., 2017.)
    I propose a theory of phonology which aims to derive the entire system from one principle, viz. asymmetry, in a non-stipulative way (cf. Di Sciullo, 2005; Dresher and van der Hulst, 1998; Kayne, 1994). Segmental components ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • Processing genitive-possessive long distance dependencies in Turkish 
    Akpınar, Seda. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2015., 2015.)
    This study addresses the processing of Genitive (GEN)-Possessive (POSS) long distance dependencies in Turkish in both Noun Phrases (NPs) and non-finite embedded clauses. The self-paced reading paradigm to investigate two ...

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