Merhaba!
I’m Yağmur, a Ph.D. candidate in Linguistics at the University of California, Santa Cruz. I am a syntactician with a focus on the so-called Altaic languages, primarily Turkish and Khalkha Mongolian.
I am advised by Maziar Toosarvandani and Mia Gong.
My main interests in syntax include case theory, ellipsis –particularly sluicing-like constructions–, nominalizations, and copular clauses. I also have a strong interest in semantics and am currently working on the evidential restrictions on imperfective markers in Turkish.
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recent updates
Oct 18, 2025 - Talk at the 56th Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistics Society (NELS 56) [handout]
May 30, 2025 - Talk at the Syntax and Morphology Circle (SMircle) at Stanford University
May 02, 2025 - Talk at the Syntax and Semantics Circle (SCircle) at UCSC
Apr 11, 2025 - Talk at the Graduate Research Symposium at UCSC
Jan 10, 2025 - Talk at the LSA 2025 Annual Meeting [handout]