I am a second year Ph.D. student in linguistics at University of Maryland, working mainly with Colin Phillips and Ellen Lau. I am mostly interested in morpho-syntax and psycholinguistics. I am currently working on (i) morphological planning, i.e., when and how morphemes are planned in sentence production and (ii) neural representations of generics/kind NPs.
In June 2022, I defended my MA thesis titled “Agreement Attraction in Turkish” in Bogazici University, where I worked with Pavel Logacev and focused on case-ambiguity, response bias, and shallow processing in agreement attraction. During my time in Bogazici, I also worked on formal semantics of hypothetical comparisons, the phonemic status of Turkish glide [j], treebanking efforts in Turkish and Laz. I also spent a semester in Masaryk University, as an invited researcher, where I worked with Pavel Caha and focused on the syntax-phonology interface of Turkish case system and augmentatives in Turkish using nanosyntactic framework.
My favorite food is gata with koritz and my favorite icecream flavor is saffron and rose (5pm snack of Anthony Bourdain). In my freetime, I try to do some calligraphy. I co-founded Translate for Justice, an independent platform of voluntary translators from all corners of the world to help raise awareness by providing information for the international public on the issues of restriction of basic human rights and freedom.
Recent Activity
- March 16, 2024: A chapter of my MA thesis is published on Language, Cognition, and Neuroscience!
- February 28, 2024: Will be presenting two posters at HSP 2024 in May! Planning agreement and Tasks effects in sentence production
- February 16, 2024: Presented my work on sentence planning and morphological planning at UMass
- October 1, 2023: Got invited to send my paper on Suppletion and Suspended Affixation to a new Nanosyntax Book! It is still a very early draft, so all comments are appreciated! [email me for the draft!]
- May 29, 2023: Contributed to pangoling R package. [myreview]
- April 25, 2023: Our paper on the phonemic status of Turkish glide [ j ] is now in press! [pdf]
- March 9, 2023: I gave a talk in Human Sentence Processing Conference about response bias and agreement attraction. [slides]
- March 4, 2023: I presented my poster on Obviation and Reference at Harvard at TU+. [poster]
view of bosphrous and kennedy lodge, photo by me, aug 18