Research

Research Interests

Morphosyntax: Case, Agreement, Adjacency restrictions, Nominalization, Control; Morphophonology: Allomorphy, Syncretism, Reduplication, Paradigm gaps, Analogy, Rule productivity, Haplology; Semantics: Plurality, Genericity; Psycholinguistics: Lexical Processing, Sentence Processing.

Papers

Haplology and local dislocation in Turkish: Evidence from associative plural constructions. 2023. In the Proceedings of the Workshop on Turkic and Languages in Contact with Turkic (Tu+8). pdf

A paradigm gap in Turkish. 2023. In the Proceedings of the Workshop on Turkic and Languages in Contact with Turkic (Tu+7).(with Ömer Demirok). pdf

Unpublished Manuscripts

A paradigm gap in Turkish. 2023. MA thesis. Boğaziçi University.pdf

A ban on adjacency in Turkish. 2022. (Unpublished Ms). pdf

Talks

Refereed

Overabundance, defectivity, and periphrastic strategies: Evidence from Turkic. “Re-evaluating the relationship between defectivity and overabundance” Workshop, SLE2023. Athens. 30 August 2023. (with Ömer Demirok)

Haplology and local dislocation in Turkish: Evidence from associative plurals. 8th Workshop on Turkic and Languages in Contact with Turkic. Harvard. 4-5 March 2023.

A ban on adjacency in Turkish. 16th Workshop of Altaic Formal Linguistics. Sept 30-Oct 2. Online. handout

The role of analogy in a paradigm gap in Turkish. 20th International Morphology Meeting. Analogy in Inflection Workshop. Budapest. Sept 1-4. slides

The absence of conclusive evidence causes a gap in Turkish. Linguistics and English Language Postgraduate Conference. University of Edinburgh. 6-8 June. (Cancelled due to a delay in visa processing)

An instance of Paradigm Cell Filling Problem in Turkish. 8th Annual Symposium on Language Research at UC Davis. 27-28 May 2022. Online. slides

A Paradigm Gap in Turkish. 7th Workshop on Turkic and Languages in Contact with Turkic. UConn. 18-19 Feb 2022. Online. slides (with Ömer Demirok)

Non-refereed

DM Analysis of A Paradigm Gap in Turkish. 46. Generative Grammatik im Süden. Universität Stuttgart. 19-21 May 2022. slides

A Nanosyntactic Analysis of -AsI Desideratives in Turkish. Boğaziçi Nanosyntax Group (BouNano). 25 April 2022. handout

Posters (refereed)

A Morpho-syntactic Analysis of Ungrammatical Associative Plurals in Turkish. Student Conference on Linguistics 2022. Boğaziçi University. May 27-28 2022. handout