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XVI. Ulusal Dilbilim Kurultayı Bildirileri, 23-24 May 2002, Hacettepe Üniversitesi, Ankara, 2003

Bu çalışma (1) ve (2)’deki tümcelerin temsil ettiği yapıların ortak noktaları olduğunu göstermey... more Bu çalışma (1) ve (2)’deki tümcelerin temsil ettiği yapıların ortak noktaları olduğunu göstermeyi ve bu yapılara Yönetme&Bağlama (Government&Binding) ve Dağıtılmış Biçimbilgisi (Distributed Morphology) kuramları çerçevesinde biçimbirimsel-sözdizimsel bir açıklama getirmeyi amaçlamaktadır.
(1) Biz hastaydık./hasta değildik.
(2) Sepette kedi var./yok.
Bildiride önce Kornfilt (1996) ve Göksel (2001)’den yola çıkılarak yukarıdaki örnekteki hastaydık sözcüğündeki –y- ekinin koşaç (copula) olduğu kabul edilmekte ve bu iddiayı destekleyici yeni veriler sunulmaktadır. YB ve DB kuramları çerçevesinde koşacın aslında tek başına biçimbirimsel karşılığı olan bir eylem değil; şekli, bulunduğu başa ve çevresindeki özelliklere göre değişen bir [+eylemsel] özellik olduğu savunulacaktır. Bu incelemeye göre, bu [+eylemsel] özellik Zaman0 baş birimine yerleştirildiğinde, biçimbirimde –y-/Ø/i- olarak ortaya çıkmakta, Eylem0 baş birimine yerleştirildiğinde biçimbirimde ol- olarak ortaya çıkmakta, Eylem0 + X0 [yer] (Locative) başbirimlerinin birleşmesinden oluşan baş birime yerleştirildiğinde ise var olarak ortaya çıkıp bir ortaç (participle) oluşturmaktadır. Bu bileşik başın olumsuzluk başıyla birleşmesi de bize yok sözcüğünü vermektedir. Bu konuyla ilgili olarak, değil sözcüğünün koşacın olumsuz hali değil, tümce yapısını oluşturan hiyerarşide –mE ve daha sonra ortaçları oluşturan baş ve biçimbirimlerden sonra gelen ikinci bir olumsuzluk baş sözcüğü olduğu gösterilecektir. Ayrıca, genelde var sayıldığı gibi koşaç kişi ekleri diye bir kişi eki grubunun olmadığı, eylem gövdesinde hangi kişi ekinin kullanılacağını sadece gövdedeki en son biçimbirimin belirlediği savunulacaktır.

The Routledge Handbook of Theoretical and Experimental Sign Language Research, 2021

Magnetoencephalography (MEG) measured subjects' brain responses during a lexical decision tas... more Magnetoencephalography (MEG) measured subjects' brain responses during a lexical decision task. The words employed come from six frequency categories, which were defined in terms of a linear decrease in log-frequency. Although frequency effects in reaction-time are well-documented in studies of lexical access, a neural component whose latency predicts reaction time has not been discovered. This study identifies an MEG component (the M350) whose latency mirrors the frequency-effect. © 2001 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.

There are as many sign languages as there are deaf communities in the world. Linguists have been ... more There are as many sign languages as there are deaf communities in the world. Linguists have been collecting corpora of different sign languages and annotating them extensively in order to study and understand their properties. On the other hand, the field of computer vision has approached the sign language recognition problem as a grand challenge and research efforts have intensified in the last 20 years. However, corpora collected for studying linguistic properties are often not suitable for sign language recognition as the statistical methods used in the field require large amounts of data. Recently, with the availability of inexpensive depth cameras, groups from the computer vision community have started collecting corpora with large number of repetitions for sign language recognition research. In this paper, we present the BosphorusSign Turkish Sign Language corpus, which consists of 855 sign and phrase samples from the health, finance and everyday life domains. The corpus is co...

Language Resources and Evaluation, 2019

This article describes the procedures employed during the development of the first comprehensive ... more This article describes the procedures employed during the development of the first comprehensive machine-readable Turkish Sign Language (TiD) 1 resource: a bilingual lexical database and a parallel corpus between Turkish and TiD. In addition to sign language specific annotations (such as non-manual markers, classifiers and buoys) following the recently introduced TiD knowledge representation (Eryiğit et al. 2016), the parallel corpus contains also annotations of dependency relations, which makes it the first parallel treebank between a sign language and an auditory-vocal language.

Sign Language and Linguistics, 2018

This paper investigates agent-backgrounding constructions in Turkish Sign Language (TİD). TİD dis... more This paper investigates agent-backgrounding constructions in Turkish Sign Language (TİD). TİD displays many of the agent-backgrounding strategies reported in the literature that signed (and spoken) languages employ (Barberà & Cabredo Hofherr, this volume). Use of non-specific indefinite pronominals is a major strategy, and this paper is the first study that identifies these forms in TİD. Moreover, we show that TİD has ways of marking clusivity distinctions of indefinite arguments, and has a special sign that derives exclusive indefinite pronominals, other. We argue that (i) whereas lateral-high R-locus is unambiguously associated with non-specificity, non-high (lateral and central) loci are underspecified in terms of specificity; (ii) the R-locus of indefinite arguments observed in agent-backgrounding contexts in TİD consists of two spatial features [+high] and [+lateral] which express non-specificity and exclusivity. This study further shows that clusivity, usually associated with ...

Dilbilim Araştırmaları Dergisi, 2018

This paper focuses on the properties of command constructions in Turkish Sign Language (TİD). The... more This paper focuses on the properties of command constructions in Turkish Sign Language (TİD). The nature and function of manual signs and nonmanual markers in command constructions in TİD are investigated to determine their prosodic, morphological, morphophonological, and syntactic properties. We show that TİD does not utilize any of the properties reported in the literature as an obligatory marker of commands in some spoken and sign languages. The only salient marker of commands we have identified is a nonmanual marker: (forward/sideward) head tilt 1 .

Knowledge-Based Systems, 2016

This article proposes a representation scheme for depicting the Turkish Sign Language (TİD) elect... more This article proposes a representation scheme for depicting the Turkish Sign Language (TİD) electronically for use in an automated machine translation system whose basic aim is to translate the Turkish primary school educational materials to TİD. The main contribution of the article is the introduction of a machine-readable knowledge representation for TİD for the first time in the literature. Like many resource-poor languages, TİD lacks electronic language resources usable in computerized systems. The utilization of the proposed scheme for resource creation is also provided in this article by two means: an interactive online dictionary platform for TİD and an ELAN add-on for corpus creation.

Studies in Language Companion Series, 2016

A Matter of Complexity, 2016

Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, 2009

We are pleased to present the proceedings of the BLS 35 Special Session on Non-Speech Modalities,... more We are pleased to present the proceedings of the BLS 35 Special Session on Non-Speech Modalities, held at UC Berkeley in February 2009. We would like to thank the contributors to this volume and all those who attended and participated in the conference, as well as those at UC Berkeley whose generous support made the conference possible: the Office of the Dean of Social Sciences, the Graduate Assembly, the Student Opportunity Fund, and the Departments of Linguistics and Anthropology.

Cognitive Brain Research, 2001

Magnetoencephalography (MEG) measured subjects' brain responses during a lexical decision task. T... more Magnetoencephalography (MEG) measured subjects' brain responses during a lexical decision task. The words employed come from six frequency categories, which were defined in terms of a linear decrease in log-frequency. Although frequency effects in reaction-time are well-documented in studies of lexical access, a neural component whose latency predicts reaction time has not been discovered. This study identifies an MEG component (the M350) whose latency mirrors the frequency-effect.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2015

Significance One key issue in the study of human language is understanding what, if any, features... more Significance One key issue in the study of human language is understanding what, if any, features of individual languages may be universally accessible. Sign languages offer a privileged perspective on this issue because the visual modality can help implement and detect certain properties that may be present but unmarked in spoken languages. The current work finds that fine-grained aspects of verb meanings visibly emerge across unrelated sign languages using identical mappings between meaning and visual form. Moreover, nonsigners lacking prior exposure to sign languages can intuit these meanings from entirely unfamiliar signs. This is highly suggestive that signers and nonsigners share universally accessible notions of telicity as well as universally accessible “mapping biases” between telicity and visual form.