Ömer DEMİROK

2025 Ömer Tabak and Ömer Demirok. “Growing Prefixes: Evidence from Sauzini”, NanoDays II. CRISSP, KU Leuven, Brussels, Oct 30-31.

2025 Metehan Eryılmaz, Ömer Demirok and Yağmur Sağ. “From Numeral to Indefinite: A Kind-Sensitive Pathway in Turkish”, The 56th Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistics Society [NELS56]. NYU, New York, Oct 17-19.

2025 Ömer Demirok and Balkız Öztürk. “Complement Hierarchy and Nominalized Clauses in Laz”, South Caucasian Chalk Circle [SCCC4]. CNRS, Paris, Oct 7-10.

2025 Baran Günay, Nagihan Lüle, Metehan Eryılmaz, Mehmet Can Dadan, and Ömer Demirok. “Processing post-verbal elements in Turkish”, 22nd International Conference on Turkish Linguistics [ICTL22]. Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi, İzmir, Sept 4-6.

2025 Ömer Tabak and Ömer Demirok. “Indo-Iranian Root Suppletion: A Locality Paradox”, Bielefeld Leiden Comparative Syntax Conference [BieLeiCoS 2025]. Universität Bielefeld, May 22-23.

2025 Metehan Eryılmaz and Ömer Demirok. “İyelik Biçeminin Dağıtılmış Biçimbilimsel Çözümlemesi”, 38. Ulusal Dilbilim Kurultayı [UDK38]. Atatürk Üniversitesi, Erzurum, May 22-23.

2025 Ömer Tabak and Ömer Demirok. “Suppletive Allomorphy in Kurmanji”, 10th Workshop on Turkic and Languages in Contact with Turkic [Tu+10]. University of Southern California, March 1-2.

2025 Nazmiye Öyük and Ömer Demirok. “Turkish Possessive Constructions by Upward Agree”, 10th Workshop on Turkic and Languages in Contact with Turkic [Tu+10]. University of Southern California, March 1-2 [poster]

2024 Muhammet Bal and Ömer Demirok. “Deriving Laz Causatives”, 2024 Western Conference on Linguistics (WECOL). California State University, Fresno, Nov 16-17.

2024 Ömer Tabak and Ömer Demirok. “Revisiting Complex Predicate Formation in Turkish”, 9th Workshop on Turkic and Languages in Contact with Turkic [Tu+9]. Cornell University, March 23-34.

2023 Muhammed İleri and Ömer Demirok. “Overabundance, defectivity, and periphrastic strategies: Evidence from Turkic”, Re-evaluating the relationship between defectivity and overabundance Workshop at the 56th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea [SLE 56], Aug 30.

2023 Yağmur Sağ, Ömer Demirok, and Muhammet Bal. “Subject pseudo-incorporation in Laz”, 8th Workshop on Turkic and Languages in Contact with Turkic [Tu+8]. Harvard University,

March 4-5 [talk] & 41st West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics [WCCFL41]. UC Santa Cruz, May 5-7 [poster]

2023 Furkan Dikmen, Elena Guerzoni, and Ömer Demirok. “When tense shifts expressive presuppositions: hani and monstrous semantics”, 8th Workshop on Turkic and Languages in Contact with Turkic [Tu+8]. Harvard University, March 4-5.

2023 Yağmur Sağ and Ömer Demirok. “Getting even without “even” in Turkish”, 53rd Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society [NELS 53], University of Göttingen, Jan 12- 14, 2023.

2022 Ümit Atlamaz and Ömer Demirok. “Revisiting Ergative Case in Laz”, Theoretical Linguistics and Languages of the Caucasus [TLLC]. İstanbul Bilgi University, June 18-19.

2022 Muhammed İleri and Ömer Demirok. “A Paradigm Gap in Turkish”, 7th Workshop on Turkic and Languages in Contact with Turkic [Tu+7]. U. of Connecticut, Feb 18-19.

2021 Ümit Atlamaz, Ömer Demirok and Metin Bağrıaçık. “From Split-Ergativity Towards Accusativity in Heritage Kurmanji and Georgian”, Heritage Language Syntax 2 [HLS2]. Utrecht University, Dec 15-17.

2021 Furkan Dikmen and Ömer Demirok and Balkız Öztürk. “Compounding with a polymorphic deverbalizer in Turkish”, 9th Workshop on Nominalizations (JENom9), Brown University, June 17-18.

2021 Ömer Demirok. “Intervention Effects directly follow from Scope Rigidity in Turkish”, Semantics and Linguistics Theory [SALT31], Brown University, May 7-9. & 6th Workshop on Turkic and Languages in Contact with Turkic [Tu+6], U. of Toronto, Feb 19-20

2021 Furkan Dikmen and Ömer Demirok. “Modifying result states in Turkish”, Semantics and Linguistics Theory [SALT31], Brown University, May 7-9.

2021 Reyhan Okumuş, Ömer Demirok and Balkız Öztürk. “Thematic suffixes in Şavşat Georgian”, Theme Vowels and V(P) Structure [ThV2021], U. of Graz, April 22-23.

2021 Utku Türk and Ömer Demirok. “Hypothetical Comparison in Turkish”, 6th Workshop on Turkic and Languages in Contact with Turkic [Tu+6], University of Toronto, Feb 19-20 & Penn Linguistics Conference 45 [PLC45], UPenn, March 19-21.

2021 Ömer Demirok. “Modal vs. non-modal un-agentive constructions in Laz”, Agency and Intentions in Language [AIL1], University of Göttingen, Jan 13-15.

2020 Ömer Demirok and Balkız Öztürk. “Attitude Sensitive Complementizers in Laz”, International Workshop on Discourse Particles [InDisPart], U. of the Basque Country, Oct 8.

2020 Ömer Demirok, Reyhan Okumuş and Balkız Öztürk. “On the temporal decomposition of bivalent events”, Events and Event Structure at the Limits of Grammar [EESLiG2020], University of Oxford, Sept 15-16.

2020 Ömer Demirok. “A pied-piping theory of exceptional de re: Scoping after all”, 43rd Generative Linguistics in the Old World [GLOW43], Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Apr 8-20

2019 Ömer Demirok. “Ergative as a default case: Evidence from a Georgian dialect”, 4th Workshop on Turkic and Languages in Contact with Turkic [Tu+4], NYU, Feb 16-17.

2018 Ömer Demirok and Despina Oikonomou “Difficult Imperatives in Turkish”, 14th Workshop on Altaic Formal Linguistics [WAFL14], MIT, Oct 19–21. [poster]

2018 Ömer Demirok, Deniz Özyıldız and Balkız Öztürk. “Complementizers in Laz are attitude sensitive”, 49th Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society [NELS49], Cornell University, Oct 5-7 [poster]

2018 Ömer Demirok. “Events are Entities: Evidence from Turkish Nominalizations”, 36th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics [WCCFL36], UCLA, Apr 20-22.

2017 Ömer Demirok. “A Modal Approach to Dative Subjects in Laz”, 48th Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society [NELS48], University of Iceland, Oct 27-29.

2016 Ömer Demirok. “Free Relatives and Correlatives in Wh-in-situ”, 47th Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society [NELS47], UMass Amherst, Oct 14-16.

2016 Ömer Demirok. “A Compositional Semantics for Turkish Correlatives”, 34th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics [WCCFL34], University of Utah, Apr 29 - May 1. [poster]

& 39th Generative Linguistics in the Old World [GLOW39], Universität Göttingen, Apr 5- 8 [poster] & 12th Workshop on Altaic Formal Linguistics [WAFL12], Central Connecticut State University, May 13-15 [talk].

2015 Ömer Demirok and Balkız Öztürk. “The Logophoric Complementizer in Laz”, Societas Linguistica Europaea Annual Meeting [SLE2015], Leiden University, Sept 2-5.

2015 Ömer Demirok and Ömer Eren. “When Case is not Case: Evidence from Laz”, Linguistic Approaches to Endangered Languages: Theory and Description, Boğaziçi University, Jul 28-30.

2015 Ömer Demirok and Balkız Öztürk. “Agreeing Complementizers and Logophoricity in Laz”, Linguistic Approaches to Endangered Languages: Theory and Description, Boğaziçi University, Jul 28-30.

2014 Ömer Demirok. “On the Search Space of AGREE”, Linguistics and Language Conference, Istanbul, June 16-18.

2014 Ömer Demirok. “An Empirical Critique of Cyclic Agree”, The 22nd Conference of the Student Organisation of Linguistic in Europe, University of Lisbon, Jan 8-10.

2013 Ömer Demirok. “Revisiting Georgian Obstruent Clusters”, 10th Old World Conference on Phonology [OCP10], Boğaziçi University, Jan 16-19.

2012 Ömer Demirok. “Status of Roots and Nanosyntactic Event Composition: Laz”, Workshop on the Representation and the Selection of Exponents, CASTL, Tromsø, Jun 7-8.

2012 Ömer Demirok. “The Diachrony of Case Marking in Georgian: Ergativity and Specificity”, Typology, Theory: Caucasus, Boğaziçi University, Nov 29-Dec 1.

2011 Ömer Demirok, Balkız Öztürk and Aslı Göksel. “Implications of case and agreement patterns in three Caucasian dialects spoken in Turkey: Pazar Laz, Ardeshani Laz and Inegol (Adjarian) Georgian”, Conference on Caucasian languages, MPI, Leipzig, May 13-15.

Inivted

2025 Ömer Demirok. “The Variable-Force Root Modal in Laz is Gradable”, LinG/RTG2636 Colloquium, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Feb 5. (joint work with Muhammet Bal)

2024 Ömer Demirok. “Root Modal Constructions in Laz”, TripleA 11, CNRS & Université de Nantes, June 11-13. (joint work with Muhammet Bal)

2024 Ümit Atlamaz (joint work with Ömer Demirok, Aslı Kuzgun). “Cross Clausal Dependencies in Turkish: A/A’ and Argument Adjunct Asymmetries”, LASER, Georg-August- Universität Göttingen, Apr 9-11. (first author invited)

2024 Ömer Demirok and Muhammet Bal. “On Force Variability in Root Modality in Laz”, LingDay, Boğaziçi University, May 22.

2023 Ömer Demirok, Ömer Eren, and Balkız Öztürk. “Tutorial on Laz”, South Caucasian Chalk Circle-3, Ilia State University, Tbilisi, Oct 2-4.

2022 Ömer Demirok and Balkız Öztürk. “Relativization Strategies in Laz”, SynSem Seminar, CNRS, June 27.

2022 Ömer Demirok and Balkız Öztürk. “The Emergence of Clausal Nominalizations in Laz”, Formal Approaches to Contact in/with Turkish [FACT]. University of Tromsø, May 19-20.

2022 Ömer Demirok “A Dependent Case Theoretic Account of Alignment Shifts in Heritage Grammars” [video link], İDÇ Dilbilim Buluşmaları #37. Jan 7. (joint work with Ümit Atlamaz and Metin Bağrıaçık)

2020 Ömer Demirok. “Non-linear blocking of portmanteaus: a case study on Laz”, Nanolab, June 12

2019 Ömer Demirok. “Does the cross-linguistic distribution of wh-free relatives justify a semantic typology?” Boğaziçi University, Nov 11

2017 Ömer Demirok. “On Complex DPs in Turkish: Lessons for Inverse Linking and Scope Rigidity”, SuSurrus at UMass Amherst, Nov 10

2011 Ömer Demirok. “The Hierarchical Nature of Inter-Onset Relations”, Government Phonology Round Table 8, Vienna University, May 6-8