Serkan Şener

Title:

Assist. Prof.

Department:

Turkish Language and Literature Department

Position:

Quality Assurance Committee Faculty Coordinator, WESMEK Department Coordinator, Erasmus Department Coordinator

Email:

serkan.sener@yeditepe.edu.tr

Telephone:

+90 216 5780000 - 1595

Office:

GSF-820

Time:

Full Time

Akademik

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Research Interests

Generative models of grammar, linguistics as a cognitive science

Structure of Modern Turkish (syntax, semantics, and pragmatics)

Syntax-pragmatics interface, information structure of sentences, wh-questions, argument ellipsis,

Psycholinguistics, neurolinguistics, syntactic processing

Biography

BA: Ankara University, 1995

MA: Ankara University, 1999

University of Connecticut, 2005

PhD: University of Connecticut, 2010

Post-Doc: University of Connecticut, 2010-11

Courses Given

Linguistics and Turkish I

Linguistics and Turkish II

Türkiye Türkçesi I

Türkiye Türkçesi II

Turkish Spoken in Turkey III

Publications

Publications

Şener, S. 2014. Eliminating Scrambling: The Variation of Word Order in Turkish. 2019. In Word Order in Turkish, Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, A. Sumru Özsoy (ed.), 91-138. Springer Publishing.

Şener, S. 2014. The Turkish NP. Syntax and Semantics 39: Crosslinguistic Studies on Noun Phrase Structure and Reference, ed. by Patricia C. Hofherr and A. Zribi-Hertz, p.102-140. Leiden: Brill (with željko Bošković)

Şener, S. 2013. Sluicing without Movement. Proceedings of the 8th Workshop on Formal Altaic Linguistics [WAFL 8], MIT Working Papers in Linguistics #67, 311-325. MITWPL: Cambridge, Mass.

Şener, S. 2012. Right Adjunction in the Right Peripheries. Proceedings of the 32nd Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society [BLS 32], February 10-12, 2006, Zhenya Antic vd. (eds.), 349-361. Sheridan Publishing, MI: Ann Arbor.

Şener, S. 2011. Canonical Case Licensing is Non-Canonical. Proceedings of the 39th Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society, Vol.2, S. Lima, K. Mullin, B. Smith (eds.), 679-691. GLSA, University of Massachusetts: Amherst.

Şener, S. 2011. Null Subjects and Indexicality in Turkish and Uyghur. Proceedings of Workshop on Formal Altaic Linguistics [WAFL 7], University of Southern California, Los Angeles (with Nilüfer Gültekin Şener).

Şener, S. 2011. The Acquisition of Causatives in Turkish. University of Connecticut Working Papers in Linguistics Vol.15: Mirror Lake Papers, (eds.). N. Gültekin Şener, C. Buesa García and T. Sawada, 65-76. MITWPL: Cambridge, Mass.

Şener, S. 2010. Argument Ellipsis in Japanese and Turkish. MIT Working Papers in Linguistics #61: Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Altaic Formal Linguistics, (eds.) Hiroki Maezawa and Azusa Yokogoshi, 325-339. MITWPL: Cambridge, Mass. (with Daiko Takahashi).

Şener, S. 2019. Ellipsis of Arguments in Japanese and Turkish. Nanzan Linguistics 6: 79-99. (with Daiko Takahashi).

Şener, S. 2011. Successive Cyclic NPI Topicalization. Proceedings of The Western Conference on Linguistics [WECOL 2006], California State University, Fresno, 2007.

Şener, S. 2006. Multiple WH-Questions in Turkish: An Investigation of In-Situness. University of Connecticut Working Papers in Linguistics, vol.14’te, s. 131-170. Editörler: M. R. Mondoñedo & S. Herdan.

Şener, S. 2003. The Interaction of Negation with Focus: ne...ne phrases in Turkish. Lingua 113: 1089-1117. (with Selçuk İşsever)

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