Faculty
Full Time
Discourse analysis, genre analysis, language and gender, language acquisition
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- Vice Chair
- Double Major Advisor
Case, Ergativity, Case/Agreement-Split, Partial agreement, Agreement disruptions, Differential Object Marking, Sentiment Analysis, Natural Language Inference, Ontology
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- Sophomore Advisor
- Outgoing Erasmus Coordinator
morpho-syntactic micro-variation, diachronic morpho-syntax, language-contact at the morpho-syntactic level, cartographic syntax, word structure, Modern Greek dialects, Turkish
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- Incoming Exchange & Erasmus Coordinator
- Freshman Advisor
Phonological representations, feature theory, stress, lenition, vowel harmony, diachronic phonology, phonetics/phonology interrelations, history of linguistics
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- Vice Chair
- MA and PhD Advisor
- Transfer Advisor
- Causcasian Languages Coordinator
syntax (argument structure, case, agreement, nominalization, word order), formal semantics (scope, intensionality, conditionals), morphology (Distributed Morphology, Nanosyntax), Turkish, Caucasian languages, endangered languages, fieldwork
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- Junior Advisor
Age of Acquisition Effects, Bimodal-Bilingualism, Prosody-Syntax Interaction, Deaf Education, Literacy, Turkish Sign Language (TİD), American Sign Language (ASL), Turkish
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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.
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- Prep Advisor
Learnability of Human Languages, Language and Cognition, First Language Acquisition, Morphology, Information Structure in Turkish, Prosody-Pragmatics/Semantics Interface.
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- Department Chair
Caucasian Languages, Altaic Languages, Turkic Languages, Theoretical Syntax, Semantics
Part-Time Faculty
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Abkhaz language and history
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Turkish Sign Language (TID)