The cross sectional study investigated the association of tobacco smoke, vitamin D status, anthropometric parameters, and kidney function in Turkish immigrants with type 2 diabetes (T2D) living in the Netherlands. Study sample included a total of 110 participants aged 30 years a…
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This thesis investigates the functional categories in the vP domain, including aspect, modality, and focus. For this research initiative, five constructions were examined: the Mandarin temporal adverbial, the Mandarin excessive tā, the Mandarin dé/bù , the Turkish question parti…
The structure and content of Carlo Domeniconi's Variations on an Anatolian Folk Song and Koyunbaba are heavily influenced by Turkish folk music. A stylistic and accurate performance of these pieces becomes possible through the study of Turkish folk music and its performance prac…
The main purpose of this study is to see the extent to which Turkish Echo Questions (EQ) are on a par with English EQs. A detailed English EQs analysis of Sobin (2010) is presented in the study as a backdrop to the main discussion. What follows it is the parsing of the data in T…
Why would a successful young novelist write the story of a failed poet told from the point of view of a sympathetic narrator, and why would this failed protagonist then become a role model for the next generation of litterateurs? Focusing on the last decades of the nineteenth ce…
This dissertation investigates the semantic and pragmatic characterization of the evidential morphology in Turkish. That evidentials are parasitic to tense/aspect morphology is well noted (Izvroski 1997, Matthewson et al. 2007 a.o.), and the traditional literature describes the …
Narrative rhythm is the process of patterning through which the reader enacts the text. In contemporary novels, rhythm involves primarily four things: (1) the cadences of words and phrases, (2) the representation of time (3) changes of perspective and (4) the thematization of "h…
This study is an empirical demonstration of the interplay between self and selfobjects, as postulated by Heinz Kohut in his theory of personality. In this study, the concept of "self" refers to levels of healthy and defensive narcissism, and "selfobjects" refer to the people and…
The wiles of women are a literary theme that has been treated from ancient Egyptian narratives to twenty-first-century TV series. The theme reached its greatest flowering in literatures of the Islamicate world, beginning with Surat Yusuf of the Qur'an and inspiring entire litera…
This paper examines the acoustics of underspecification and vowel harmony (VH) in Turkish. In Turkish, vowels in suffixes that change according to VH rules are widely believed to be underspecified for rounding and/or backness. Underspecification has previously been thought to pe…
It has been found that when students learn new languages, certain aspects of their native language can transfer to their L2 in usage and the L2 may alter the usage of the native language. One method used to examine the possibility of transfers between languages, or compare langu…
The document provides a glimpse into the world of Turkish performance for a Western audience, including a history of the Turkish clarinet, a description of the instrument as exemplified by Serkan Çağri's career, and a single case study of the author's lessons with Çağri. Audio a…
This dissertation is an analysis of the morphosyntax of the Turkish causative construction within the framework of Distributed Morphology (DM). It is an attempt to capture a range of different phenomena in a principled way within this framework. Important aspects of DM for the a…
Learning a morphological process requires generalizing which words undergo the process and what form these words take. Emphatic reduplication in Turkish (TER) is unproductively applied to a small set of adjectives. Despite its unproductiveness, Turkish speakers have been shown t…
This thesis presents new data in Turkish concerning phrasing and accent representation, question particle placement, and scope-sensitive prosodic phrasing. The issues at hand are discussed and analyzed within the perspective of minimalist assumptions to syntax and the interfaces…
Odlin (2003) observes that there is no consensus among researchers regarding the importance of L1 transfer in second-language acquisition (henceforth SLA). To test whether L1 transfer is a significant factor in SLA of English relative clauses (RCs), an English-language acceptabi…
This thesis is an investigation of the semantic and morpho-syntactic properties of nouns and noun phrases in Turkish. Adopting a hybrid model of formal and lexical semantic views on noun semantics and nominal number as a theoretical basis, the primary objective of this work is t…
This dissertation has two main foci: first, on the experiences of Turkish women in the German educational system, and to what extent state policies, cultural pressures, and personal choice influence their decision to pursue higher education; second, how state policies, cultural …
The Kurdish people have historically occupied the eastern and southeastern regions of Turkey. Since 1923 the Kurdish question is still the most serious internal issue in the Turkish republic's eighty-eight year history. Undoubtedly, one of the main obstacles for the Kurds in Tur…