projects

This page brings together selected ongoing and completed projects that form part of my broader research agenda on meaning, morphological structure, and modality in language.

research

Classifier constructions in TİD

Morphosyntax, argument structure, and event representation in Turkish Sign Language

Manner, Negation, and Focus

Event structure, manner, and the interpretation of negation and focus

Age of Acquisition Effects in TİD

Age of acquisition, sign language, morphosyntax, discourse, TİD

Puzzles in Turki(c)/(sh)

Turkish, Sakha, verb doubling, plural possession, grammatical variation

in progress

Word order and definiteness in sign languages

Word order, definiteness, intensionality, TİD, ASL

Depiction and Grammar

Depiction, classifier constructions, ideophones, and gesture across modalities

random ideas

Research at Boğaziçi

Turkish, derivational suffixes, ideophones, focus particles, Trabzon dialect, vowel harmony

Irrealis Readings in Turkish

Morphology, morphosemantics, meaning, Turkish