{"id":16826,"date":"2025-02-10T06:04:54","date_gmt":"2025-02-10T11:04:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=16826"},"modified":"2025-02-10T15:16:52","modified_gmt":"2025-02-10T20:16:52","slug":"bergul-snu-linguistics-symposium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2025\/02\/10\/bergul-snu-linguistics-symposium\/","title":{"rendered":"MIT Linguistics @ SNU Linguistics Symposium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our alum <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/view\/heejeongko\/home\"><strong>Heejong Ko<\/strong><\/a> (PhD 2005) gave the opening remarks at the <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/view\/snulingsym1\/home?authuser=0\">1st SNU Linguistics Symposium<\/a>\u00a0<span data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">on January 10 and 11, 2025<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>Third-year student <strong>Berg\u00fcl Soykan<\/strong> gave a talk <span data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">entitled &#8220;The Underlying Structure of Correlatives and Unconditionals in Turkish&#8221;. A brief abstract is given below and you can read the longer version <a href=\"https:\/\/mitprod-my.sharepoint.com\/:b:\/g\/personal\/iceyu_mit_edu\/EW15d4Xw5SJGj9A9p3bbZkgBk4cZPiHSG8zKunkOsbgEhw?e=FxMroH\">here<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>This study investigates the structure of correlatives and unconditionals in Turkish, focusing on their syntactic and semantic parallels and distinctions. I propose that correlatives align with standard\u00a0<i>if<\/i>-conditionals, while unconditionals resemble antecedent-external &#8220;even if&#8221; conditionals in Turkish, particularly through the interaction with the particle\u00a0<i>da<\/i>. The study addresses the key question: why do non-past markers (-Ir, -Iyor, -Acak) block unconditional interpretations? Drawing on previous analyses and new evidence, it proposes that this restriction arises from the presuppositional conflict introduced by\u00a0<i>da<\/i> and the non-past markers. These findings shed light on Turkish morphosyntax and its implications for cross-linguistic patterns, leaving open questions about the broader interaction of tense and modality in conditional structures.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/0N1A0712?.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-16863\" src=\"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/0N1A0712?.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"384\" height=\"256\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/0N1A0781_1.jpeg\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-16864\" src=\"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/0N1A0781_1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"384\" height=\"256\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our alum Heejong Ko (PhD 2005) gave the opening remarks at the 1st SNU Linguistics Symposium\u00a0on January 10 and 11, 2025. Third-year student Berg\u00fcl Soykan gave a talk entitled &#8220;The Underlying Structure of Correlatives and Unconditionals in Turkish&#8221;. A brief abstract is given below and you can read the longer version here. This study investigates [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni-news","category-student-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16826"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16865,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16826\/revisions\/16865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}