M.A. Theses: Recent submissions

  • Time and aspect in Turkish Sign Language (TİD): manual and nonmanual realizations of 'finish' 
    Karabüklü, Serpil. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2016., 2016.)
    The need to study aspectual marking in TİD lies in the fact that a small number of studies in the literature mention manual aspectual markers but do not provide a detailed analysis. Understanding the aspectual marking in ...
  • Inflected doubled verbs in Turkish 
    Erbaşı, Betül. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2015., 2015.)
    This study investigates aspectual, morpho-syntactic and prosodic properties of Infected Doubled Verbs (DVs) in Turkish with the aim of providing a systematic analysis of the data based on a grammaticality judgment experiment ...
  • Contrastive Değil constructions In Turkish: a large conjunct and Pf-deletion analysis 
    Yakut Kubaş, Ayşe Büşra. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2015., 2015.)
    I aim to contribute new empirical evidence and theoretical insight pertinent to the general issue of negation in contrastive environments. An understanding of the contrastive değil constructions and the nature of değil in ...
  • Complex clauses with embedded constituent interrogatives in Turkish Sign Language (TİD) 
    Hakgüder, Emre. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2015., 2015.)
    The aim of this thesis is twofold: while presenting my observations on the syntax and prosody of clausal wh-complements in Turkish Sign Language (TİD), I discuss the implications of my findings to matrix interrogatives and ...
  • Some considerations in teaching Turkish women how to read and write 
    Cox, Norma Jeanne. (Thesis (M.A.)- Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 1983., 1983.)
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 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.)
  • 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 ...

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