STRUCTURE OF TURKISH, 4:00P-5:15P, TR, SW217, taught by Oner Ozcelik.
Combined sections. No prior knowledge of Turkish is required. However, students with no formal linguistics background should receive instructor's permission, email oozcelik@indiana.edu.
LING-L 490 (34314) LINGUISTIC STRUCTURES (3 CR) VT: STRUCTURE OF TURKISH
CEUS-R 589 (#34086) TOPICS IN TURKISH STUDIES (3 CR) VT: STRUCTURE OF TURKISH
LING-L 590 (34315) LINGUISTIC STRUCTURES (3 CR) VT: STRUCTURE OF TURKISH
STRUCTURE OF TURKISH This course introduces students to the linguistic features of Turkish (phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics) within the framework of recent linguistic models. Our main focus will be on phonology and syntax, though we will also investigate topics in the morphology and semantics of Turkish, as well as some language acquisition data.
Each topic will be discussed within the context of linguistic typology and language universals. We will investigate whether linguistic theories based mainly on languages like English can successfully account for data from Turkish, and explore ways in which such data could, in turn, contribute to our understanding of the human language faculty in general.
Throughout the semester, each student will investigate a linguistic phenomenon of their choice in Turkish, and compare it with related phenomena in other languages. Students will write a conference abstract/proposal on the topic, as well as giving a class presentation and writing a short final paper on it. (The purpose is that, by the end of the semester, each student will be able to have enough material to later submit to a linguistics conference, present it, as well as publish it in the proceedings of the conference.) Undergraduates will be given the option of choosing between a final paper and a final exam.
In addition to the big research project involving the abstract, presentation and final paper (or exam), there will be homework assignments that involve analysis of linguistic data sets.
No prior knowledge of Turkish is required. However, students with no formal linguistics background should receive instructor’s permission.
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