Faculty
Full Time
Discourse analysis, genre analysis, language and gender, language acquisition
Prosody-Syntax Interaction, Language Acquisition, Bilingualism, Language Emergence & Evolution, American Sign Language (ASL), Turkish Sign Language (TİD), Turkish
Word structure, Morphology-Syntax Interface, Prosody-Syntax Interface, Information structure in Turkish, Turkish Sign Language
Formal semantics, formal pragmatics, and their interaction with syntax focusing on the following empirical domains across languages: Negative Polarity and Negative Concord, interrogative sentences and predicates that embed them, presupposition projection, and focus associating particles.
Morphology/syntax-semantics interface; syntax, semantics and morphology of Turkish and Turkish Sign Language (TİD); comparative morpho-syntax of Turkic languages
Psycholinguistics, sentence comprehension, formal models of human sentence comprehension, the interaction between memory and syntax in sentence processing.
Language and Cognition, Language Acquisition, Psycholinguistics, Morphology, Information Structure in Turkish, Prosody-Pragmatics/Semantics Interface.
Syntax, Historical Linguistics, Caucasian Languages, Structure of Laz, Structure of Turkic languages
Phonology, phonological metatheory, phonology-morphology interaction, linguistics as a cognitive science, Finno-Ugric & Scandinavian languages, Turkic.
Part-Time Faculty
Structure of Turkish, Turkish phonology, tense-aspect-modality, morphology and syntax/semantics interface, verbal system of Laz
Syntax, structure of Turkish, Caucasian languages, cognitive linguistics, sign languages, Turkish Sign Language
