Research
Research Interests
Morphosyntax: Case, Agreement, Nominalization, Control; Morphophonology: Allomorphy, Syncretism, Reduplication, Paradigm gaps, Analogy, Rule productivity, Haplology; Psycholinguistics: Language Acquisition.
Articles & Manuscripts in Progress
Postsyntactic operations in Turkish possessives. (In progress).
Stylistic Coherence and Lexical Constraints in Turkish. (In progress). Please ask me for a draft if you would like to see the current version.
Vowel lowering and identity in Turkish emphatic reduplication. (In progress). Please ask me for a draft if you would like to see the current version.
Proceedings (refereed)
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Unpublished Manuscripts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 (Unpublished Ms).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)
Stylistic Coherence and Lexical Constraints in Turkish. The 62nd Annual Meeting of Chicago Linguistic Society (CLS 62). University of Chicago. 17-19 April 2026. slides
Vowel lowering and identity in Turkish emphatic reduplication. 22nd International Conference on Turkish Linguistics. 9 Eylul University. 4-6 September 2025. slides
Patterns of /e/-Lowering in Turkish Emphatic Reduplication. 10th Workshop on Turkic and Languages in Contact with Turkic (Tu+10). University of Southern California. 1-2 March 2025.slides
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)
Invited talks
Morphological productivity: What do paradigm gaps tell us? Ling 203 (Inst: Andrea Beltrama). University of Delaware. 29 Sep 2025.slides
Non-refereed talks
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
Postsyntactic operations in Turkish. Boston Morphology Workshop. Boston University. May 2026.
Testing stylistic congruence of a vowel alternation in Turkish. New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV) 53. University of Michigan. 5-7 November 2025.
A Morpho-syntactic Analysis of Ungrammatical Associative Plurals in Turkish. Student Conference on Linguistics 2022. Boğaziçi University. May 27-28 2022. handout