{"id":16955,"date":"2025-03-10T06:02:54","date_gmt":"2025-03-10T10:02:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=16955"},"modified":"2025-03-10T13:47:15","modified_gmt":"2025-03-10T17:47:15","slug":"tu-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2025\/03\/10\/tu-10\/","title":{"rendered":"MIT Linguistics @ Tu+ 10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On March 1st 2025, the <span data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">10th Workshop on Turkic and Languages in Contact with Turkic (<a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/usc.edu\/tuplus10\/home?authuser=0\">Tu+ 10<\/a>) was held at University of Southern California. Our current student Berg\u00fcl Soykan (3rd year student) presented a poster entitled &#8220;The Underlying Structure of Correlatives and Unconditionals in Turkish&#8221;. You can read the abstract <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1PgrmoTyCMIeWQMrI8inrXzRUN8xwefEz\/view?usp=sharing\">here<\/a>, and a shorter version is provided below:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><span data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">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;\u00a0<i>da<\/i>\u00a0conditionals 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>\u00a0and the non-past markers.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Several of our alimuni also attended the conference (you can read the abstracts by clicking on the titles):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Utku T\u00fcrk &amp; <strong>Aaron Hirsch<\/strong> (PhD 2017)[University of Maryland, College Park]: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1l3H8HnhkrVThBftc95pwVFkdIh5Q9EXp\/view?usp%3Dsharing&amp;sa=D&amp;source=editors&amp;ust=1741631628071491&amp;usg=AOvVaw2dCTzyQ5n9JhC3EJ7pXlMA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Turkish allows covert scrambling<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Z\u00fcheyra Toka\u00e7 &amp; <strong>Jennifer Cole<\/strong> (PhD 1987)[Northwestern University]: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1EYaCVgmx2DO-cNJFruttKVHV7mWny0Tf\/view?usp%3Dsharing&amp;sa=D&amp;source=editors&amp;ust=1741631628071032&amp;usg=AOvVaw3kq6hBs-6L_KEV5Js5cGyb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Vowel cooccurrence as a predictor of perceived vowel similarity in Turkish<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Nazmiye \u00d6y\u00fck &amp; <strong>\u00d6mer Demirok<\/strong> (PhD 2019)[Bo?azi\u00e7i University]: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1m0TnRFv5MFr78QmWwx9VEo48W2D6zax8\/view?usp%3Dsharing&amp;sa=D&amp;source=editors&amp;ust=1741631628069985&amp;usg=AOvVaw0NlNP9ZNMdE9bovfCUNS6p\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Turkish Possessive Constructions by Upward Agree<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On March 1st 2025, the 10th Workshop on Turkic and Languages in Contact with Turkic (Tu+ 10) was held at University of Southern California. Our current student Berg\u00fcl Soykan (3rd year student) presented a poster entitled &#8220;The Underlying Structure of Correlatives and Unconditionals in Turkish&#8221;. You can read the abstract here, and a shorter version [&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-16955","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\/16955","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=16955"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16962,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16955\/revisions\/16962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}