Ayse Sumru Özsoy
List of John Benjamins publications in which Ayse Sumru Özsoy is involved.
Articles
2020 Null arguments in Turkish Sign Language Morphological Complexity within and across Boundaries: In honour of Aslı Göksel, Gürer, Aslı, Dilek Uygun-Gökmen and Balkız Öztürk (eds.), pp. 385–418 | Chapter
This paper argues that phonologically null arguments in Turkish Sign Language (henceforth, TİD) are licensed as discourse topic(s). We observe that both null subjects and objects are licensed by both plain and agreeing verbs as well as classifiers. Moreover, we show that null arguments of both… read more
2016 Negative or not – the Case of -(y)AlI beri in Turkish Exploring the Turkish Linguistic Landscape: Essays in honor of Eser Erguvanlı-Taylan, Güven, Mine, Didar Akar, Balkız Öztürk and Meltem Kelepir (eds.), pp. 45–56 | Article
This paper examines an anomaly in Turkish with respect to licensing the neg projection in the (postpositional) temporal adjunct clause -(y)AlI (beri) which expresses duration (Özsoy 2004, Arslan-Kechriotis 2006). The paper argues that any formalism that would account for negated constructions… read more
2009 Argument structure, animacy, syntax and semantics of passivization in Turkish: A corpus-based approach Corpus Analysis and Variation in Linguistics, Kawaguchi, Yuji, Makoto Minegishi and Jacques Durand (eds.), pp. 259–279 | Article