Middle East Technical University

List of John Benjamins publications that have an author or editor affiliated with Middle East Technical University*

Cangır, Hakan, Kutay Uzun, Taner Can, Enis Oğuz & Ömer Faruk Kaya 2026 Formal and semantic lexical errors in L2 English writing: How do errors affect writing quality?

Keywords: lexical error | learner corpus | SLA | interlanguage | writing quality

Australian Review of Applied Linguistics | Online First Publication, 43 pp. | article

Efeoğlu-Özcan, Esranur & Hale Işık-Güler 2025 Compiling the first spoken corpus for Turkish youth talk: Overview of the corpus and methodological issues

Keywords: spoken corpus | youth talk | corpus construction | corpus design | Turkish

Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 49:1 pp. 58–86 | article

Orakçı-Beyaztaş, Elif & Dilay Z. Karadöller 2025 Exploring the relation between gesture presentation perspective and children’s spatial performance

Keywords: gesture perspective | spatial performance | multimodal communication | preschool children | visuospatial maps

Gesture | Online First Publication, 30 pp. | article

Akin, Fazil & Owain Pedgley 2025 From physical material samples to design-relevant tags: Using research through design (RTD) to generate prioritized information specifications

Keywords: materials information | material libraries | material samples | product design | research through design

Information Design Journal 29:3 pp. 264–288 | article | open access

Mendes, Amália, Deniz Zeyrek & Giedrė Oles̆kevic̆ienė 2023 Explicitness and implicitness of discourse relations in a multilingual discourse bank

Keywords: discourse relations | continuity | explicitness

Functions of Language 30:1 pp. 67–91 | article

Mendes, Amália & Deniz Zeyrek 2021 The discourse markers well and so and their equivalents in the Portuguese and Turkish subparts of the TED-MDB corpus

Keywords: translation | TED Talks genre | PDTB discourse annotation | discourse markers | question-response pairs | Portuguese | Turkish | English

In: Corpora in Translation and Contrastive Research in the Digital Age: Recent advances and explorations, Lavid-López, Julia, Carmen Maíz Arévalo & Juan Rafael Zamorano-Mansilla (eds.) [Benjamins Translation Library, 158] pp. 209–232

Yu, Xiaoli 2020 Lexical features in argumentative writing across English writers from different language backgrounds

Keywords: lexical features | academic writing | vocabulary | nonnative writers

Journal of Second Language Studies 3:1 p. 82 | article

Walter, Mary Ann 2020 Neuters to none: A diachronic perspective on loanword gender in Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian

Keywords: grammatical gender | loanwords | borrowing | Bosnian | Croatian | Serbian | Slavic | Balkan | phonology | Optimality | Turkish

In: Historical Linguistics 2017: Selected papers from the 23rd International Conference on Historical Linguistics, San Antonio, Texas, 31 July–4 August 2017, Drinka, Bridget (ed.) [Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 350] pp. 473–488

Hohenberger, Annette 2020 Cognitive science and the controversy of anthropogenic climate change

Keywords: anthropogenic climate change | Bayesian modeling | belief polarization | cognitive science | collective virtue ethics | complex societal problem | controversy | interdisciplinarity | mandevillian intelligence | virtues and vices

In: Controversies and interdisciplinarity: Beyond disciplinary fragmentation for a new knowledge model, Allwood, Jens, Olga Pombo, Clara Renna & Giovanni Scarafile (eds.) [Controversies: Ethics and Interdisciplinarity, 16] pp. 75–94

Durdu, Akif, Aydan M. Erkmen & Alper Yilmaz 2019 Reshaping human intention in Human-Robot Interactions by robot moves: A comparative analysis of HMM and OOM methods

Keywords: Human-Robot Interaction | Hidden Markov Models | Observable Operator Models | intention reshaping | intention recognition

Interaction Studies 20:3 pp. 530–560 | article

Lago, Sol, Martina Gračanin-Yuksek, Duygu Fatma Şafak, Orhan Demir, Bilal Kırkıcı & Claudia Felser 2018  Straight from the horse’s mouth : Agreement attraction effects with Turkish possessors

Keywords: agreement attraction | bilingualism | Turkish

Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 9:3 pp. 398–426 | article

Hatipoglu, Ciler 2016 Explicit apologies in L2 Turkish

Keywords: apologies | Arabic | interlanguage pragmatics | L2 Turkish | Russian | study abroad context

In: Second Language Acquisition of Turkish, Gürel, Ayşe (ed.) [Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 59] pp. 221–248

Gracanin-Yuksek, Martina & Bilal Kırkıcı 2016 Syntax/semantics/pragmatics of yes/no question in second language Turkish

Keywords: L2 Turkish | syntax-pragmatics interface | syntax-semantics interface | Turkish question particle | yes/no questions

In: Second Language Acquisition of Turkish, Gürel, Ayşe (ed.) [Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 59] pp. 165–191

Jacob, Gunnar & Bilal Kırkıcı 2016 The processing of morphologically complex words in a specific speaker group: A masked-priming study with Turkish heritage speakers

Keywords: heritage speakers | masked priming | morphological decomposition | complex words | Turkish

The Mental Lexicon 11:2 pp. 308–328 | article

Sağın-Şimşek, Çiğdem 2016 Acquisition of canonical and non-canonical word orders in L1 Turkish

Keywords: syntax-before-pragmatics argument | word order | syntax-pragmatics interface | L1 Turkish

In: The Acquisition of Turkish in Childhood, Haznedar, Belma & F. Nihan Ketrez (eds.) [Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 20] pp. 79–98

Hohenberger, Annette, Aslı Altan, Utku Kaya, Özgün Köksal Tuncer & Enes Avcu 2016 Sensitivity of Turkish infants to vowel harmony: Preference shift from familiarity to novelty

Keywords: phonological development | head-turn paradigm | familiarity-to-novelty shift | Turkish vowel harmony

In: The Acquisition of Turkish in Childhood, Haznedar, Belma & F. Nihan Ketrez (eds.) [Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 20] pp. 29–56

Kaygusuz, Yasin & Deniz Zeyrek 2016 Turkish children’s early vocabulary: A study on the lexical diversity of two sisters

Keywords: lexical categories | type-to-token ratio (TTR) | noun dominance

In: The Acquisition of Turkish in Childhood, Haznedar, Belma & F. Nihan Ketrez (eds.) [Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 20] pp. 57–78

Zeyrek, Deniz 2014 On the distribution of the contrastive-concessive discourse connectives ama ‘but/yet’ and fakat ‘but’ in written Turkish

Keywords: concession | contrast | corpus | discourse | discourse connectives | discourse relations | Turkish

In: On Diversity and Complexity of Languages Spoken in Europe and North and Central Asia, Suihkonen, Pirkko & Lindsay J. Whaley (eds.) [Studies in Language Companion Series, 164] pp. 251–274

Goy, Elif, Deniz Zeyrek & Bahar Otcu 2012 Developmental patterns in internal modification of requests: A quantitative study on Turkish learners of English

In: Interlanguage Request Modification, Economidou-Kogetsidis, Maria & Helen Woodfield (eds.) [Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 217] pp. 51–86

Zeyrek, Deniz, Ümit Deniz Turan, Isin Demirsahin & Ruket Çakici 2012 Differential properties of three discourse connectives in Turkish: A corpus-based analysis of Fakat, Yoksa, Ayrıca

In: Constraints in Discourse 3: Representing and inferring discourse structure, Benz, Anton, Manfred Stede & Peter Kühnlein (eds.) [Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 223] pp. 183–206

Temurcu, Ceyhan 2011 Grounding in terms of anchoring relations: Epistemic associations of ‘present continuous’ marking in Turkish

In: Cognitive Approaches to Tense, Aspect, and Epistemic Modality, Patard, Adeline & Frank Brisard (eds.) [Human Cognitive Processing: Cognitive Foundations of Language Structure and Use, 29] pp. 109–134

Ruhi, Şükriye & Dániel Z. Kádár 2011 ‘Face’ across historical cultures: A comparative study of Turkish and Chinese

Keywords: nineteenth and early twentieth centuries | face | Turkish and Chinese novels | emic

Journal of Historical Pragmatics 12:1/2 pp. 25–48 | article

*Please note that this list may be inaccurate for older publications.